Technology readiness levels for machine learning systems

A Lavin, CM Gilligan-Lee, A Visnjic, S Ganju… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development and deployment of machine learning systems can be executed easily with
modern tools, but the process is typically rushed and means-to-an-end. Lack of diligence …

Robust validation: Confident predictions even when distributions shift

M Cauchois, S Gupta, A Ali, JC Duchi - Journal of the American …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While the traditional viewpoint in machine learning and statistics assumes training and
testing samples come from the same population, practice belies this fiction. One strategy …

Conformal sensitivity analysis for individual treatment effects

M Yin, C Shi, Y Wang, DM Blei - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Estimating an individual treatment effect (ITE) is essential to personalized decision making.
However, existing methods for estimating the ITE often rely on unconfoundedness, an …

Prescriptive process monitoring for cost-aware cycle time reduction

ZD Bozorgi, I Teinemaa, M Dumas… - … on process mining …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reducing cycle time is a recurrent concern in the field of business process management.
Depending on the process, various interventions may be triggered to reduce the cycle time …

Long story short: Omitted variable bias in causal machine learning

V Chernozhukov, C Cinelli, W Newey, A Sharma… - 2022 - nber.org
We derive general, yet simple, sharp bounds on the size of the omitted variable bias for a
broad class of causal parameters that can be identified as linear functionals of the …

Dowhy: Addressing challenges in expressing and validating causal assumptions

A Sharma, V Syrgkanis, C Zhang, E Kıcıman - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Estimation of causal effects involves crucial assumptions about the data-generating process,
such as directionality of effect, presence of instrumental variables or mediators, and whether …

Interpretable sensitivity analysis for balancing weights

D Soriano, E Ben-Michael, PJ Bickel… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Assessing sensitivity to unmeasured confounding is an important step in observational
studies, which typically estimate effects under the assumption that all confounders are …

Semiparametric sensitivity analysis: Unmeasured confounding in observational studies

DO Scharfstein, R Nabi, EH Kennedy… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data often relies on untestable
assumptions. It is crucial to know whether, and to what extent, the conclusions drawn from …

Partial identification with noisy covariates: A robust optimization approach

W Guo, M Yin, Y Wang… - Conference on causal …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Causal inference from observational datasets often relies on measuring and adjusting for
covariates. In practice, measurements of the covariates can often be noisy and/or biased, or …

On online experimentation without device identifiers

S Shankar, R Sinha, M Fiterau - Forty-first International Conference …, 2024 - openreview.net
Measuring human feedback via randomized experimentation is a cornerstone of data-driven
decision-making. The methodology used to estimate user preferences from their online …