Kernel Instrumental Variable Regression

Rahul Singh, Maneesh Sahani, Arthur Gretton

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Instrumental variable (IV) regression is a strategy for learning causal relationships in observational data. If measurements of input X and output Y are confounded, the causal relationship can nonetheless be identified if an instrumental variable Z is available that influences X directly, but is conditionally independent of Y given X and the unmeasured confounder.