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Yanghao Xiao

5 accepted papers

2026

Unveiling Prior-data Fitted Networks on Causal Effect Estimation: Pre-training or Finetuning?

ICML 2026poster

Amortized causal inference via Prior-data Fitted Networks (PFNs) has emerged as a promising paradigm, enabling zero-shot estimation of causal effects without the need for dataset-specific model tuning. However, the principled effectiveness of unified pre-training across general interventional regime…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Addressing Hidden Confounding with Heterogeneous Observational Datasets for Recommendation

NeurIPS 2024poster

The collected data in recommender systems generally suffers selection bias. Considerable works are proposed to address selection bias induced by observed user and item features, but they fail when hidden features (e.g., user age or salary) that affect both user selection mechanism and feedback exist…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Debiased Collaborative Filtering with Kernel-Based Causal Balancing

ICLR 2024spotlight

Collaborative filtering builds personalized models from the collected user feedback. However, the collected data is observational rather than experimental, leading to various biases in the data, which can significantly affect the learned model. To address this issue, many studies have focused on pro…

2023

Propensity Matters: Measuring and Enhancing Balancing for Recommendation

ICML 2023poster

Propensity-based weighting methods have been widely studied and demonstrated competitive performance in debiased recommendations. Nevertheless, there are still many questions to be addressed. How to estimate the propensity more conducive to debiasing performance? Which metric is more reasonable to m…

Cited by 50SourcePDFScholar
2023

Removing Hidden Confounding in Recommendation: A Unified Multi-Task Learning Approach

NeurIPS 2023poster

In recommender systems, the collected data used for training is always subject to selection bias, which poses a great challenge for unbiased learning. Previous studies proposed various debiasing methods based on observed user and item features, but ignored the effect of hidden confounding. To addres…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar