Research talk: Causal ML and business
Using machine learning for causal inference can, in a subset of cases with rich data, replicate results from A/B experimentation. For other cases, like identifying the “average treatment effect for compliers” ML offers more limited scope. There is room to progress methodologically on this front. In the best-case scenario, where we get the tools to estimate average treatment effects for compliers, there is a straightforward path to get a scalable inference service off the ground, similar to experimental platforms. In this session, Microsoft economics researcher Jacob LaRiviere will discuss some experiences with causal ML in business scenarios.
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- Track:
- Causal Machine Learning
- Date:
- Speakers:
- Jacob LaRiviere
- Affiliation:
- Microsoft Research
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Jacob LaRiviere
Senior Principal Researcher
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Causal Machine Learning
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Opening remarks: Causal Machine Learning
Speakers:- Cheng Zhang
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Research talk: Causal ML and business
Speakers:- Jacob LaRiviere
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Panel: Challenges and opportunities of causality
Speakers:- Susan Athey,
- Yoshua Bengio,
- Judea Pearl
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Research talk: Causal ML and fairness
Speakers:- Allison Koenecke
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Panel: Causal ML Research at Microsoft
Speakers:- Daniel McDuff,
- Javier González,
- Justin Ding
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Research talk: Post-contextual-bandit inference
Speakers:- Nathan Kallus
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Panel: Causal ML in industry
Speakers:- Ya Xu,
- Totte Harinen,
- Dawen Liang
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