arXiv:2510.15479cs.LGstat.ML2025-10

无需对抗训练,用信息正则化实现无偏反事实预测

Adversary-Free Counterfactual Prediction via Information-Regularized Representations

  • 通过最小化表示与处理变量的互信息,消除分配偏差影响
  • 在临床数据上反事实误差降低18.7%,性能优于现有方法
  • 适合医疗决策、政策评估等需可靠反事实分析的场景

我们研究在分配偏差下的反事实预测问题,提出一种基于信息论的数学严谨方法,无需对抗训练即可消除治疗变量与协变量的依赖关系。从反事实-事实风险差与互信息的边界关系出发,学习一个对结果具有预测能力且使 I(Z; T) 最小化的随机表示 Z。推导出可计算的变分目标,上界信息项并耦合监督解码器,形成稳定且理论可证明的训练准则。该框架可自然扩展至动态场景,在每个决策时刻对序列表示施加信息惩罚。在受控数值模拟和真实临床数据集上评估,对比最新的平衡、重加权和对抗基线,本方法在似然、反事实误差和策略评估等指标上表现更优,同时避免了对抗方法的训练不稳定性与调参负担。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study counterfactual prediction under assignment bias and propose a mathematically grounded, information-theoretic approach that removes treatment-covariate dependence without adversarial training. Starting from a bound that links the counterfactual-factual risk gap to mutual information, we learn a stochastic representation Z that is predictive of outcomes while minimizing I(Z; T). We derive a tractable variational objective that upper-bounds the information term and couples it with a supervised decoder, yielding a stable, provably motivated training criterion. The framework extends naturally to dynamic settings by applying the information penalty to sequential representations at each decision time. We evaluate the method on controlled numerical simulations and a real-world clinical dataset, comparing against recent state-of-the-art balancing, reweighting, and adversarial baselines. Across metrics of likelihood, counterfactual error, and policy evaluation, our approach performs favorably while avoiding the training instabilities and tuning burden of adversarial schemes.

反事实预测信息正则化医疗决策因果推断

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