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[Submitted on 1 Oct 2024 (v1), last revised 22 Nov 2024 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments, by Kosuke Imai and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this paper, we demonstrate how to enhance the validity of causal inference with unstructured high-dimensional treatments like texts, by leveraging the power of generative Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, we propose to use a deep generative model such as large language models (LLMs) to efficiently generate treatments and use their internal representation for subsequent causal effect estimation.…