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We propose a framework that aligns Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE) estimation with profit maximization. Our method recognizes that, for customers with extreme treatment effects, additional estimation accuracy is unlikely to…
Constrained Bayesian optimization (CBO) methods have seen significant success in black-box optimization with constraints. One of the most commonly used CBO methods is the constrained expected improvement (CEI) algorithm. CEI is a natural…
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We present Causal Posterior Estimation (CPE), a novel method for Bayesian inference in simulator models, i.e., models where the evaluation of the likelihood function is intractable or too computationally expensive, but where one can…
We give an approach for characterizing interference by lower bounding the number of units whose outcome depends on selected groups of treated individuals, such as depending on the treatment of others, or others who are at least a certain…
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Digital twinning offers a capability of effective real-time monitoring and control, which are vital for cost-intensive experimental facilities, particularly the ones where extreme conditions exist. Sparse experimental measurements collected…
A general framework for goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation for finite volume methods is presented. The framework does not rely on recasting finite volume methods as special cases of finite element methods, but instead directly…
Bayesian error analysis paves the way to the construction of credible and plausible error regions for a point estimator obtained from a given dataset. We introduce the concept of region accuracy for error regions (a generalization of the…
Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation (SICE) is useful in many practical data analyses. Recovering the connectivity, non-connectivity graph of covariates is classified amongst the most important data mining and learning problems. In this…
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Optimal stopping is the problem of deciding when to stop a stochastic system to obtain the greatest reward, arising in numerous application areas such as finance, healthcare and marketing. State-of-the-art methods for high-dimensional…
The MDR-EFE method of performing identification of relevant factors within a given collection X_1,...,X_n is developed for stratified samples in the case of binary response variable Y. We establish a criterion of strong consistency of…
We analyze a goal-oriented adaptive algorithm that aims to efficiently compute the quantity of interest $G(u^\star)$ with a linear goal functional $G$ and the solution $u^\star$ to a general second-order nonsymmetric linear elliptic partial…