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Poster

Uplift Modeling from Separate Labels

Ikko Yamane · Florian Yger · Jamal Atif · Masashi Sugiyama

Room 210 #5

Keywords: [ Causal Inference ] [ Semi-Supervised Learning ]


Abstract:

Uplift modeling is aimed at estimating the incremental impact of an action on an individual's behavior, which is useful in various application domains such as targeted marketing (advertisement campaigns) and personalized medicine (medical treatments). Conventional methods of uplift modeling require every instance to be jointly equipped with two types of labels: the taken action and its outcome. However, obtaining two labels for each instance at the same time is difficult or expensive in many real-world problems. In this paper, we propose a novel method of uplift modeling that is applicable to a more practical setting where only one type of labels is available for each instance. We show a mean squared error bound for the proposed estimator and demonstrate its effectiveness through experiments.

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