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Li, Yingzhen; Mandt, Stephan; Agrawal, Shipra; Khan, Emtiyaz
(Ed.)
We study the problem of causal effect estimation in the presence of unobserved confounders, focusing on two settings: instrumental variable (IV) regression with additional observed confounders, and proxy causal learning. Our approach uses a singular value decomposition of a conditional expectation operator combined with a saddle-point optimization method. In the IV regression setting, this can be viewed as a neural network generalization of the seminal approach due to Darolles et al. (2011). Saddle-point formulations have recently gained attention because they mitigate the double-sampling bias and are compatible with modern function approximation methods. We provide experimental validation across various settings and show that our approach outperforms existing methods on common benchmarks.
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