arXiv Machine Learning July 14, 2026 By Roberto Faleh, Sofia Morelli, Holger Brandt

Representation Learning for Semiparametric Causal Mediation Analysis under No Essential Heterogeneity

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arXiv:2607. 10540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a two-stage estimator for structural mediation parameters that combines deep representation learning with G-estimation under the "no essential heterogeneity" (NEH) assumption.

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