Learning representations for counterfactual inference

33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2016

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 4407-4418

  Johansson, Fredrik D ^a   Shalit, Uri ^b   Sontag, David ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK; BLOOD SUGARS; CAUSAL INFERENCES; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; EMPIRICAL - COMPARISONS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; STATE OF THE ART;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84999054172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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