2026 Lab Seminar

Paper reviews

  • Multiple randomization designs: Estimation and inference with interference (Lorenzo Masoero et al., 2026)
  • A nonparametric framework for treatment effect modifier discovery in high dimensions (Philippe Boileau et al., 2025)
  • Alleviating the quantum Big-M problem (Edoardo Alessandroni et al., 2025)
  • Balancing weights for causal inference in observational factorial studies (Ruoqi Yu & Peng Ding, 2026)
  • Hilbert space embeddings and metrics on probability measures (Bharath Sriperumbudur et al., 2010)
  • Kernel mean embedding of distributions: A review and beyond (Krikamol Muandet et al., 2017)
  • Computational optimal transport (Gabriel Peyré & Marco Cuturi, 2019) [Ch1]
  • Quantifying distributional model risk via optimal transport (Jose Blanchet & Karthyek Murthy, 2019)
  • Stochastic gradient methods for distributionally robust optimization with f-divergences (Hongseok Namkoong & John Duchi, 2016)
  • Augmented minimax linear estimation (David Hirshberg & Stefan Wager, 2021)
  • Generalized optimal matching methods for causal inference (Nathan Kallus, 2020)

2025 Lab Seminar

Paper reviews

  • Causal fairness analysis (Drago Plečko & Elias Bareinboim, 2024) [Ch1-Ch5]
  • Covariate-adaptive randomization inference in matched designs (Samuel Pimentel & Yaxuan Huang, 2024)
  • Sensitivity analysis for attributable effects in case2 studies (Kan Chen, Ting Ye & Dylan Small, 2025)
  • Conformal inference of counterfactuals and individual treatment effects (Lihua Lei & Emmanuel Candès, 2021)
  • Testing generalizability in causal inference (Daniel de Vassimon Manela, Linying Yang & Robin Evans, 2025)
  • The nudge average treatment effect (Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, 2024)
  • Long story short: omitted variable bias in causal machine learning (Victor Chernozhukov et al., 2021)
  • Transfer learning between U.S. presidential elections: how should we learn from a 2020 ad campaign to inform 2024 ad campaigns? (Xinran Miao, Jiwei Zhao & Hyunseung Kang, 2024)
  • Causal inference on distribution functions (Zhenhua Lin, Dehan Kong & Linbo Wang, 2023)
  • Game-theoretic statistics and safe anytime-valid inference (Aaditya Ramdas et al., 2023)

Book review

  • High-dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint (Martin Wainwright, 2019)
  • Hypothesis testing with e-values (Aaditya Ramdas & Ruodu Wang, 2025)

2023-24 Lab Seminar

Paper reviews

  • Probabilities of causation: three counterfactual interpretations and their identification (Judea Pearl, 1999)
  • Sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with continuous exposures and binary outcomes (Jeffrey Zhang, Dylan Small & Siyu Heng, 2024)
  • Robust estimation of causal effects via a high-dimensional covariate balancing propensity score (Yang Ning, Peng Sida & Kosuke Imai, 2020)
  • Can we reliably detect biases that matter in observational studies? (Paul Rosenbaum, 2023)
  • Semiparametric efficiency gains from parametric restrictions on propensity scores (Haruki Kono, 2024)
  • Estimation based on nearest neighbor matching: from density ratio to average treatment effect (Zhexiao Lin, Peng Ding & Fang Han, 2023)
  • Causal inference methods for combining randomized trials and observational studies: a review (Bénédicte Colnet et al., 2024)
  • Multiple conditional randomization tests for lagged and spillover treatment effects (Yao Zhang & Qingyuan Zhao, 2024)
  • Estimating causal effects under non-individualistic treatments due to network entanglement (Panos Toulis, Alexander Volfovsky & Edoardo Airoldi, 2024)
  • Biased-sample empirical likelihood weighting for the missing data problems: an alternative to inverse probability weighting (Yukun Liu & Yan Fan, 2023)
  • Causal inference in survival analysis under deterministic missingness of confounders in register data (Iuliana Ciocănea-Teodorescu et al., 2023)
  • Evidence factors from multiple, possibly invalid, instrumental variables (Anqi Zhao et al., 2022)
  • Finding influential subjects in a network using a causal framework (Youjin Lee et al., 2023)
  • Neural score matching for high-dimensional causal inference (Oscar Clivio et al., 2022)
  • Mendelian randomization
  • Influence function and efficiency theory

Book review

  • Handbook of Matching and Weighting Adjustments for Causal Inference (José Zubizarreta, Elizabeth Stuart, Dylan Small, Paul Rosenbaum, 2023)
  • Causal Inference: What If (Miguel Hernán & James Robins, 2020)

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