Inference on the Value of Policy Improvement in Adaptive Experiments
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自适应实验中策略改进价值的推断
- 研究问题
- 摘要称，本文研究在自适应收集的数据下，如何估计策略改进价值（VPI），即某类中最优治疗策略的价值与基线策略价值之差，用以判断是否值得部署个性化治疗策略。
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出序贯方法：在历史数据上拟合加权经验福利最大化策略，再用逆倾向加权在后续样本上评估该策略；不假设最优策略唯一，也不对异质性处理效应作边际假设，并证明衰减倾向下策略学习的遗憾率快于估计量标准误。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，作者给出了VPI的渐近正态估计量，可在最优策略非唯一、估计目标非路径可微的情形下处理自适应数据的相关性与衰减倾向；并给出衰减倾向下更快的策略学习遗憾率，该结果可能具有独立价值。
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- 阅读全文时应核对：渐近正态性的具体条件与方差估计方式；非唯一最优策略下如何处理非正则性；遗憾率快于标准误的证明依赖哪些假设；合成与半合成模拟的覆盖表现；约旦求职援助实验的估计与原文层次贝叶斯结果的差异来源。
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- 仅凭摘要无法判断估计量在有限样本下的表现、假设的可检验性、模拟设计细节与实证结论的稳健性；摘要未说明具体收敛速率常数、置信区间构造与数据规模。该文为arXiv预印本，未经同行评审验证，不能据此声称已被期刊接收。
原文摘要
In this paper, we develop an asymptotically normal estimator for the value of policy improvement (VPI) under adaptively collected data. This value, which is defined as the gap between the value of the best treatment policy in a class and that of a baseline policy, gauges whether or not it is worth deploying a personalized treatment policy. Building an estimator for the VPI is naturally more difficult than estimating the value of a fixed policy. This is because, in addition to contending with the correlated data and decaying propensities associated with adaptive experiments, any estimator must also handle the non-regularity, or lack of pathwise differentiability, of the underlying estimand when the optimal policy is non-unique. Our proposed estimator works by sequentially fitting a weighted empirical welfare maximizing policy on historical data and then evaluating it using inverse propensity weighting on future samples. We neither assume that the optimal policy is unique nor make a margin assumption on the underlying heterogeneous treatment effects. A key difficulty in analyzing our estimator is showing that the regret incurred through policy learning is asymptotically smaller than the standard error of the estimator. We accomplish this by showing faster regret rates for policy learning under decaying propensities, which may be of independent interest. We not only evaluate the coverage of our estimator on a mix of synthetic and semi-synthetic data, but also employ it to estimate the VPI in an adaptive experiment evaluating the efficacy of job assistance programs in Jordan due to Caria et al. Although our estimates are generally more conservative than their hierarchical Bayesian analysis, which assumes that the optimal policy is unique, we still corroborate the benefits of personalization amongst Syrian refugees.