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Learning density ratios in causal inference using Bregman-Riesz regression

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2510.16127v2 Announce Type: replace-cross The ratio of two probability density functions is a fundamental quantity that appears in many areas of statistics and machine learning, including causal inference, reinforcement learning, covariate shift, outlier detection, independence testing, importance sampling, and diffusion modeling. Naively estimating the numerator and denominator densities separately using, e.g., kernel density estimators, can lead to unstable performance and suffer from the curse of dimensionality as the number of covariates increases.