Estimating Average Causal Effects from Patient Trajectories

Authors: Dennis Frauen, Tobias Hatt, Valentyn Melnychuk, Stefan Feuerriegel

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We compare Deep ACE in an extensive number of experiments, confirming that it achieves state-of-the-art performance. We further provide a case study for patients suffering from low back pain to demonstrate that Deep ACE generates important and meaningful findings for clinical practice.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1 LMU Munich 2 Munich Center for Machine Learning 3 ETH Zurich
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: Iterative G-computation (Robins 1999; van der Laan and Rose 2018)
Open Source Code Yes 1Code available at https://github.com/Dennis Frauen/Deep ACE.
Open Datasets Yes For this purpose, we use the MIMIC-III dataset (Johnson et al. 2016), which includes electronic health records from patients admitted to intensive care units.
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions generating synthetic and semi-synthetic data for experiments and refers to the Appendix for details regarding data generation and method evaluation, but it does not specify concrete train/validation/test splits, percentages, or sample counts in the main text. Details on implementation, training, and hyperparameter tuning are also noted to be in the Appendix.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific details about the hardware used for running experiments, such as GPU models, CPU types, or memory specifications.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions using an LSTM layer and refers to implementation details in the Appendix, but it does not list specific software dependencies with version numbers (e.g., library names like PyTorch or TensorFlow with their versions).
Experiment Setup No The paper explicitly states, 'Details on our implementation, training, and hyperparameter tuning are in the Appendix.' Therefore, specific experimental setup details are not provided in the main text.