A Constructive GAN-based Approach to Exact Estimate Treatment Effect without Matching
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无需匹配的 GAN 处理效应估计方法
- 研究问题
- 估计处理组平均处理效应时，能否用生成模型替代匹配，并缓解作者所述的精度损失、样本不足与共同支持问题？
- 方法与思路
- 作者用 GAN 逼近处理组与对照组的密度，比较相同输入条件下的条件分布以估计 CATE，再在处理组内平均得到 ATT。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，完美学习密度时可精确估计 ATT，并报告两个玩具数据实验及企业数据应用；优于匹配的判断属于作者陈述。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对条件分布差异如何转为因果效应、精确估计所需的识别条件，以及生成样本在共同支持不足时实际提供的信息。
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- 这是 arXiv 预印本，不能据此认定已同行评审或期刊接收；摘要未交代识别假设，生成增样本身不构成因果识别保证。
原文摘要
Matching has become the mainstream in counterfactual inference, with which selection bias between sample groups can be significantly eliminated. However in practice, when estimating average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) via matching, no matter which method, the trade-off between estimation accuracy and information loss constantly exist. Attempting to completely replace the matching process, this paper proposes the GAN-ATT estimator that integrates generative adversarial network (GAN) into counterfactual inference framework. Through GAN machine learning, the probability density functions (PDFs) of samples in both treatment group and control group can be approximated. By differentiating conditional PDFs of the two groups with identical input condition, the conditional average treatment effect (CATE) can be estimated, and the ensemble average of corresponding CATEs over all treatment group samples is the estimate of ATT. Utilizing GAN-based infinite sample augmentations, problems in the case of insufficient samples or lack of common support domains can be easily solved. Theoretically, when GAN could perfectly learn the PDFs, our estimators can provide exact estimate of ATT. To check the performance of the GAN-ATT estimator, three sets of data are used for ATT estimations: Two toy data sets with 1/2 dimensional covariate inputs and constant/covariate-dependent treatment effect are tested. The estimates of GAN-ATT are proved close to the ground truth and are better than traditional matching approaches; A real firm-level data set with high-dimensional input is tested and the applicability towards real data sets is evaluated by comparing matching approaches. Through the evidences obtained from the three tests, we believe that the GAN-ATT estimator has significant advantages over traditional matching methods in estimating ATT.