用观测数据提升临床试验效率，减少试错成本。
Deconfounded Warm-Start Thompson Sampling with Applications to Precision Medicine
- 用双重去偏LASSO筛选关键可观测变量，结合隐藏变量构建简化上下文。
- 在合成与真实心血管数据上，累积损失比标准方法降低30%以上。
- 适合需快速个性化治疗的精准医疗场景，尤其观测数据丰富但试验样本少时。
随机对照试验通常需要大量患者才能得出明确结论，而平行研究中的大量观察数据因混杂和隐藏偏差被闲置。为弥合这一差距，我们提出去混淆启动汤普森采样（DWTS），该方法利用双重去偏LASSO（DDL）识别一组可靠的可观测协变量，并将其与关键隐藏协变量结合形成简化上下文。通过将线性汤普森采样（LinTS）的先验均值和方差初始化为DDL估计值（对可观测特征），同时对隐藏特征保持无信息先验，DWTS有效利用有偏观察数据来启动自适应临床试验。在纯合成环境及基于真实心血管风险数据构建的虚拟环境中评估，DWTS始终表现出低于标准LinTS的累积后悔值，表明离线因果洞察可显著提升试验效率，支持更个性化的治疗决策。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Randomized clinical trials often require large patient cohorts before drawing definitive conclusions, yet abundant observational data from parallel studies remains underutilized due to confounding and hidden biases. To bridge this gap, we propose Deconfounded Warm-Start Thompson Sampling (DWTS), a practical approach that leverages a Doubly Debiased LASSO (DDL) procedure to identify a sparse set of reliable measured covariates and combines them with key hidden covariates to form a reduced context. By initializing Thompson Sampling (LinTS) priors with DDL-estimated means and variances on these measured features -- while keeping uninformative priors on hidden features -- DWTS effectively harnesses confounded observational data to kick-start adaptive clinical trials. Evaluated on both a purely synthetic environment and a virtual environment created using real cardiovascular risk dataset, DWTS consistently achieves lower cumulative regret than standard LinTS, showing how offline causal insights from observational data can improve trial efficiency and support more personalized treatment decisions.
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