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Exponential Family Synthetic Controls

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

We develop exponential family synthetic controls (EFSC), a distributional version of synthetic controls for a panel of datasets. Each cell of the panel corresponds to a dataset drawn from an exponential family whose natural parameters factorize probabilistically across units and times. We estimate the latent factors using black-box variational inference. This replaces the usual weighted-average view of synthetic controls with a flexible probabilistic model that operates on full distributions. We propose causal estimands based on divergences between pre- and post-intervention distributions indu

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