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ArticleProceedings of machine learning research2024

DISCRET: Synthesizing Faithful Explanations For Treatment Effect Estimation.

Yinjun Wu, Mayank Keoliya, Kan Chen, Neelay Velingker, Ziyang Li, Emily J Getzen, Qi Long, Mayur Naik, Ravi B Parikh, Eric Wong

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Article in Proceedings of machine learning research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yinjun WuSchool of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Mayank KeoliyaDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Kan ChenSchool of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States.
Neelay VelingkerDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Ziyang LiDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Emily J GetzenPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Qi LongDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Mayur NaikDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Ravi B ParikhPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Eric WongDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Funding

Advancing Analysis of Multi-omics Data in Alzheimer's Disease ResearchRF1AG063481 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LONG, QI · 2019 to 2020
$3.8M
Robust privacy preserving distributed analysis platform for cancer research: addressing data bias and disparitiesU01CA274576 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JIANG, XIAOQIAN, LONG, QI · 2023 to 2025
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA274576NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG063481
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing faithful yet accurate AI models is challenging, particularly in the field of individual treatment effect estimation (ITE). ITE prediction models deployed in critical settings such as healthcare should ideally be (i) accurate, and (ii) provide faithful explanations. However, current solutions are inadequate: state-of-the-art black-box models do not supply explanations, post-hoc explainers for black-box models lack faithfulness guarantees, and self-interpretable models greatly compromise accuracy. To address these issues, we propose DISCRET, a self-interpretable ITE framework that synthesizes faithful, rule-based explanations for each sample. A key insight behind DISCRET is that explanations can serve dually as

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PMCPMC11350397

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