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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mengting Wan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jing Ma, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Longqi Yang, Issaquah, WA (US);
Brent Jaron Hecht, Redmond, WA (US);
Jaime Teevan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computing system, computer-readable storage medium, and method for individual treatment effect (ITE) estimation under high-order interference in hypergraphs are described herein. The method includes accessing, via a processor, a hypergraph dataset including multi-way interactions among nodes within each hyperedge of a corresponding hypergraph, where the hypergraph dataset corresponds to a treatment assignment for each node. The method includes performing representation learning on the hypergraph dataset to control for confounders corresponding to features of each node and to learn a confounder representation for each node. The method also includes modeling a high-order interference representation for each node by propagating the learned confounder representation and the treatment assignment for each node through a hypergraph neural network. The method further includes estimating the ITE for each node under the treatment assignment based on the learned confounder representation and the modeled high-order interference representation for each node.