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Personalized Public Policy Analysis in Social Sciences Using Causal-Graphical Normalizing Flows
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, Statistik och maskininlärning. Linköpings universitet, Tekniska fakulteten. (Causality)ORCID-id: 0000-0002-3329-5533
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, Statistik och maskininlärning. Linköpings universitet, Tekniska fakulteten. (Causality)
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, Institutet för analytisk sociologi, IAS. Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2022 (engelsk)Inngår i: Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: AAAI Special Track on AI for Social Impact, Palo Alto, California USA: AAAI Press, 2022, Vol. 36, nr 11, s. 11810-11818, artikkel-id 21437Konferansepaper, Publicerat paper (Fagfellevurdert)
Abstract [en]

Structural Equation/Causal Models (SEMs/SCMs) are widely used in epidemiology and social sciences to identify and analyze the average causal effect (ACE) and conditional ACE (CACE). Traditional causal effect estimation methods such as Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) and more recently Regression-With-Residuals (RWR) are widely used - as they avoid the challenging task of identifying the SCM parameters - to estimate ACE and CACE. However, much work remains before traditional estimation methods can be used for counterfactual inference, and for the benefit of Personalized Public Policy Analysis (P3A) in the social sciences. While doctors rely on personalized medicine to tailor treatments to patients in laboratory settings (relatively closed systems), P3A draws inspiration from such tailoring but adapts it for open social systems. In this article, we develop a method for counterfactual inference that we name causal-Graphical Normalizing Flow (c-GNF), facilitating P3A. A major advantage of c-GNF is that it suits the open system in which P3A is conducted. First, we show how c-GNF captures the underlying SCM without making any assumption about functional forms. This capturing capability is enabled by the deep neural networks that model the underlying SCM via observational data likelihood maximization using gradient descent. Second, we propose a novel dequantization trick to deal with discrete variables, which is a limitation of normalizing flows in general. Third, we demonstrate in experiments that c-GNF performs on-par with IPW and RWR in terms of bias and variance for estimating the ACE, when the true functional forms are known, and better when they are unknown. Fourth and most importantly, we conduct counterfactual inference with c-GNFs, demonstrating promising empirical performance. Because IPW and RWR, like other traditional methods, lack the capability of counterfactual inference, c-GNFs will likely play a major role in tailoring personalized treatment, facilitating P3A, optimizing social interventions - in contrast to the current `one-size-fits-all' approach of existing methods.

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Palo Alto, California USA: AAAI Press, 2022. Vol. 36, nr 11, s. 11810-11818, artikkel-id 21437
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AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ISSN 2159-5399, E-ISSN 2374-3468
Emneord [en]
Normalizing Flows, AI For Social Impact
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-187128DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21437ISI: 000893639104092Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85125853693OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-187128DiVA, id: diva2:1685653
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Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI2022), Vancouver, Canada, Feb 22-March 1, 2022
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Funding: Swedish Research Council through the Swedish Network for Register-Based Research [2019-00245]

Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-08-03 Laget: 2022-08-03 Sist oppdatert: 2025-09-18bibliografisk kontrollert

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