arXiv Machine Learning By Andrea Nava, Peter B\"uhlmann, Fabio Sigrist

Spectrally Deconfounded Gradient Boosting

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arXiv:2607. 09371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible machine-learning methods can be sensitive to hidden confounding: they may learn associations induced by unobserved confounders rather than stable signals.

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