Generative Flows for Potential Outcomes and Counterfactuals

arXiv:2505.16051 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-05-21 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-05-21

Updated: 2026-10-17

Comments: Conference version appeared at 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2026)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Causal Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Continuous Normalizing Flow (CNF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Flow Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 17 episodes
• Normalizing Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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