用因果不变性设计在线市场治理规则,让公平参与更稳定
Invariant Causal Routing for Governing Social Norms in Online Market Economies
- 通过反事实推理与因果不变性识别跨环境稳定的政策-规范关系
- 在真实数据校准的异质仿真中,规范稳定性提升且泛化差距更小
- 适合研究平台治理、算法公平性及可解释政策设计的学者
社会规范是经济系统中通过代理间重复互动自发形成的稳定行为模式。在在线市场中,诸如公平曝光、持续参与和平衡再投资等规范对长期稳定至关重要。本文旨在揭示这些涌现规范背后的因果机制,并设计可指导其向理想状态演化的原则性干预策略。挑战在于,规范由海量微观交互聚合而成,导致因果归因与政策可迁移性困难。为此,提出「不变因果路由(Invariant Causal Routing, ICR)」框架,通过结合反事实推理与不变因果发现,分离真实因果效应与虚假相关性,构建可解释、可审计且在分布漂移下仍有效的政策规则。在基于真实数据校准的异质代理仿真中,ICR 在规范稳定性、泛化差距和规则简洁性上均优于基于相关性或覆盖率的基线方法,证明因果不变性为治理提供了可解释且稳健的原则基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Social norms are stable behavioral patterns that emerge endogenously within economic systems through repeated interactions among agents. In online market economies, such norms -- like fair exposure, sustained participation, and balanced reinvestment -- are critical for long-term stability. We aim to understand the causal mechanisms driving these emergent norms and to design principled interventions that can steer them toward desired outcomes. This is challenging because norms arise from countless micro-level interactions that aggregate into macro-level regularities, making causal attribution and policy transferability difficult. To address this, we propose \textbf{Invariant Causal Routing (ICR)}, a causal governance framework that identifies policy-norm relations stable across heterogeneous environments. ICR integrates counterfactual reasoning with invariant causal discovery to separate genuine causal effects from spurious correlations and to construct interpretable, auditable policy rules that remain effective under distribution shift. In heterogeneous agent simulations calibrated with real data, ICR yields more stable norms, smaller generalization gaps, and more concise rules than correlation or coverage baselines, demonstrating that causal invariance offers a principled and interpretable foundation for governance.
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