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比例高维下尺度混合误差的贝叶斯DAG结构学习与收缩协方差估计AI 解读

We propose a unified Bayesian framework namely robust DAG-Cholesky horseshoe (R-DACH) for joint directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure learning and precision matrix estimation in the high-dimensional proportional asymptotic regime $p/n \to c \in (0,\infty)$, under the scale mixture of normal errors. The construction places a global-local horseshoe-type prior directly on the strictly lower-triangular entries of the modified Cholesky factor of the DAG-Markov precision matrix,…

聚类数据中的结构学习AI 解读

Recent algorithmic advances have made directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure learning scalable for causal discovery. Yet, the currently available techniques assume a completely homogeneous population, precluding their application to clustered data where cluster-specific variations (e.g., patient-specific effects) are common. We address this issue by introducing a new approach that estimates a global structure while accounting for local cluster-level effects. The key idea is…

存在溢出效应的实验与准实验：基于设计的检验和推断AI 解读

Economic policies rarely affect only their direct targets. To study these spillovers, researchers summarize who else was treated with a simple exposure measure, such as the share of treated neighbors within a radius. But for many settings, economic theory provides little guidance on choosing the functional form (e.g., ring) of that measure or its parameters (e.g., radius). We show that the data can inform both choices. Correctly specified exposure measures imply…

合成双重差分中固定目标集合异质性的共享供体推断AI 解读

Empirical studies often estimate several synthetic-control or synthetic Difference-in-Differences effects from a common donor pool and then summarize their heterogeneity. Because the same donors enter several comparisons, the first-stage errors are jointly distributed and affect different targets differently. We characterize three regimes for linear fixed-set summaries: nonconcentration, root-rate donor exposure, and donornegligibility. We also show that removing…

平稳随机动力系统中因果效应符号的可识别性AI 解读

We study identifiability in continuous-time linear stationary stochastic differential equations with a known causal structure. Unlike existing approaches, we relax the assumption of a known diffusion matrix, thereby respecting the model's intrinsic scale invariance. Therefore, rather than recovering drift coefficients themselves, we introduce edge-sign identifiability: for a given causal structure, we ask whether the sign of a given drift entry is uniquely determined across…

以双重校准借用观察数据提升随机试验 CATE 估计精度AI 解读

Understanding how treatment effects vary across patient characteristics is essential for personalized medicine, yet randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often underpowered to detect heterogeneous treatment effects (HTEs). We propose a framework that improves the efficiency of conditional average treatment effect (CATE) estimation in RCTs by leveraging large observational studies (OS) while preserving RCT unbiasedness. Framing CATE estimation as a supervised learning…