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Rachel Leah Childers

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Computational social science and digital humanities
causal inference
0.912025
Valid Inference with Imperfect Synthetic Data · NeurIPS 2025
Computational social science and digital humanities › causal inference
treatment effect estimation
0.912025
Valid Inference with Imperfect Synthetic Data · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

large language model · 0.9generalized method of moments · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Valid Inference with Imperfect Synthetic Data
abstract
Predictions and generations from large language models are increasingly being explored as an aid in limited data regimes, such as in computational social science and human subjects research. While prior technical work has mainly explored the potential to use model-predicted labels for unlabeled data in a principled manner, there is increasing interest in using large language models to generate entirely new synthetic samples (e.g., synthetic simulations), such as in responses to surveys. However, it remains unclear by what means practitioners can combine such data with real data and yet produce statistically valid conclusions upon them. In this paper, we introduce a new estimator based on generalized method of moments, providing a hyperparameter-free solution with strong theoretical guarantees to address this challenge. Intriguingly, we find that interactions between the moment residuals of synthetic data and those of real data (i.e., when they are predictive of each other) can greatly improve estimates of the target parameter. We validate the finite-sample performance of our estimator across different tasks in computational social science applications, demonstrating large empirical gains.
Yewon Byun, Zachary C. Lipton, Rachel Leah Childers, Bryan Wilder
NeurIPS4