arxivstat.MLcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-05
Fixed-Confidence Best-Arm Identification for Causal Mediation Analysis
Harsh Shrivastava, Yuta Kawakami, Junpei Komiyama, Jin Tian
This paper studies the problem of identifying the treatment that maximizes the expected natural direct potential outcome (NDPO), which captures the potential outcome of an intervention while excluding the pathway transmitted through a mediator that researchers may wish to remove…