Ethical machine learning in healthcare

IY Chen, E Pierson, S Rose, S Joshi… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The use of machine learning (ML) in healthcare raises numerous ethical concerns,
especially as models can amplify existing health inequities. Here, we outline ethical …

A review of off-policy evaluation in reinforcement learning

M Uehara, C Shi, N Kallus - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.06355, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most vibrant research frontiers in machine
learning and has been recently applied to solve a number of challenging problems. In this …

Causal inference about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals

IJ Dahabreh, K Bibbins-Domingo - Jama, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Many medical journals, includingJAMA, restrict the use of causal language to the
reporting of randomized clinical trials. Although well-conducted randomized clinical trials …

Causal machine learning: A survey and open problems

J Kaddour, A Lynch, Q Liu, MJ Kusner… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Causal Machine Learning (CausalML) is an umbrella term for machine learning methods
that formalize the data-generation process as a structural causal model (SCM). This …

Causal effect inference with deep latent-variable models

C Louizos, U Shalit, JM Mooij… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning individual-level causal effects from observational data, such as inferring the most
effective medication for a specific patient, is a problem of growing importance for policy …

An introduction to proximal causal learning

EJT Tchetgen, A Ying, Y Cui, X Shi, W Miao - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
A standard assumption for causal inference from observational data is that one has
measured a sufficiently rich set of covariates to ensure that within covariate strata, subjects …

Applied causal inference powered by ML and AI

V Chernozhukov, C Hansen, N Kallus… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
An introduction to the emerging fusion of machine learning and causal inference. The book
presents ideas from classical structural equation models (SEMs) and their modern AI …

A selective review of negative control methods in epidemiology

X Shi, W Miao, ET Tchetgen - Current epidemiology reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Negative controls are a powerful tool to detect and adjust for
bias in epidemiological research. This paper introduces negative controls to a broader …

An introduction to proximal causal inference

EJ Tchetgen Tchetgen, A Ying, Y Cui, X Shi… - Statistical …, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
An Introduction to Proximal Causal Inference Page 1 Statistical Science 2024, Vol. 39, No. 3,
375–390 https://doi.org/10.1214/23-STS911 © Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2024 An …

Adapting text embeddings for causal inference

V Veitch, D Sridhar, D Blei - Conference on Uncertainty in …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Does adding a theorem to a paper affect its chance of acceptance? Does labeling a post
with the author's gender affect the post popularity? This paper develops a method to …