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The combination of numerical integration and deep learning, i.e., ODE-net, has been successfully employed in a variety of applications. In this work, we introduce inverse modified differential equations (IMDE) to contribute to the behaviour…

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We provide sufficient conditions for the identification of the heterogeneous treatment effects, defined as the conditional expectation for the differences of potential outcomes given the untreated outcome, under the nonignorable treatment…

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