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Poster
Learning Robust Decision Policies from Observational Data
Muhammad Osama · Dave Zachariah · Peter Stoica

Tue Dec 08 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Poster Session 1 #191

We address the problem of learning a decision policy from observational data of past decisions in contexts with features and associated outcomes. The past policy maybe unknown and in safety-critical applications, such as medical decision support, it is of interest to learn robust policies that reduce the risk of outcomes with high costs. In this paper, we develop a method for learning policies that reduce tails of the cost distribution at a specified level and, moreover, provide a statistically valid bound on the cost of each decision. These properties are valid under finite samples -- even in scenarios with uneven or no overlap between features for different decisions in the observed data -- by building on recent results in conformal prediction. The performance and statistical properties of the proposed method are illustrated using both real and synthetic data.

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Muhammad Osama (Uppsala University)
Dave Zachariah (Uppsala University)
Peter Stoica (Uppsala University)

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