Conformal Individual Treatment Effect Estimation under Networked Interference
stat.ML, cs.IT, cs.LG, math.IT
Submitted: 2026-09-14
Updated: 2026-09-14
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The gist: Conformal counterfactual prediction constructs prediction sets with finite-sample coverage guarantees for counterfactual outcomes and individual treatment effects under the no-interference assumption.
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Abstract
Conformal counterfactual prediction constructs prediction sets with finite-sample coverage guarantees for counterfactual outcomes and individual treatment effects under the no-interference assumption. In this work, we relax this assumption by allowing each unit's potential outcomes to depend on other units' treatments and covariates. In this setting, propensity-score reweighting does not restore weighted exchangeability, and existing methods may fail to achieve valid coverage. To address this issue, we develop interference-adjusted weighted conformal prediction that accounts for interference by constructing an observable upper bound on the ideal and unobserved conformal p-value under the target intervention. The resulting prediction sets provide finite-sample marginal coverage guarantees for counterfactual outcomes and individual treatment effects in both transductive and inductive settings. We also derive a sharper construction when intervention-induced changes in nonconformity scores are bounded. Numerical experiments show that our methods preserve nominal coverage, whereas existing methods may not.
Sources
- Synthetic Counterfactual Labels for Efficient Conformal Counterfactual Inference
- Confounding-Valid Conformal Inference for Counterfactual KPIs in Wireless Networks
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