Combining T-learning and DR-learning: a framework for oracle-efficient estimation of causal contrasts
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结合 T-learning 与 DR-learning：因果对比的 oracle 有效估计框架
- 研究问题
- 如何估计条件平均处理效应和条件相对风险，同时保留正交学习的 oracle 效率，并减少逆概率权重与伪结果引起的不稳定？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出 EP-learning，使用因果对比总体风险的有效插件估计构造学习目标，并通过经验风险最小化估计异质性因果对比。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称适当条件下方法具有 oracle 效率，并结合插件策略的稳定性；模拟报告优于所列学习器，同时提供 R 包实现。
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- 应核对风险函数如何估计、oracle 等价成立的条件、参数边界和重叠问题的处理，以及模拟比较的设计与调参公平性。
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原文摘要
We introduce efficient plug-in (EP) learning, a novel framework for the estimation of heterogeneous causal contrasts, such as the conditional average treatment effect and conditional relative risk. The EP-learning framework enjoys the same oracle efficiency as Neyman-orthogonal learning strategies, such as DR-learning and R-learning, while addressing some of their primary drawbacks: (i) their practical applicability can be hindered by non-convex loss functions; and (ii) they may suffer from poor performance and instability due to inverse probability weighting and pseudo-outcomes that violate bounds. To overcome these issues, the EP-learner leverages an efficient plug-in estimator of the population risk function for the causal contrast. In doing so, it inherits the stability of plug-in strategies such as T-learning, while improving on their efficiency. Under reasonable conditions, EP-learners based on empirical risk minimization are oracle-efficient, exhibiting asymptotic equivalence to the minimizer of an oracle-efficient one-step debiased estimator of the population risk function. In simulation experiments, we show that EP-learners of the conditional average treatment effect and conditional relative risk outperform state-of-the-art competitors, including the T-learner, R-learner, and DR-learner. Open-source implementations of the proposed methods are available in our \texttt{R} package \texttt{hte3}.