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Uplift modeling, also known as individual treatment effect (ITE) estimation, is an important approach for data-driven decision making that aims to identify the causal impact of an intervention on individuals. This paper introduces a new benchmark dataset for uplift modeling focused on churn prediction, coming from a telecom company in Belgium, Orange Belgium. Churn, in this context, refers to customers terminating their subscription to the telecom service. This is the first publicly available dataset offering the possibility to evaluate the efficiency of uplift modeling on the churn prediction problem. Moreover, its unique characteristics make it more challenging than the few other public uplift datasets., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables, post-proceedings of the ECML PKDD 2023 Workshop on Uplift Modeling and Causal Machine Learning for Operational Decision Making

Counterfactuals are central in causal human reasoning and the scientific discovery process. The uplift, also called conditional average treatment effect, measures the causal effect of some action, or treatment, on the outcome of an individual. This paper discusses how it is possible to derive bounds on the probability of counterfactual statements based on uplift terms. First, we derive some original bounds on the probability of counterfactuals and we show that tightness of such bounds depends on the information of the feature set on the uplift term. Then, we propose a point estimator based on the assumption of conditional independence between the counterfactual outcomes. The quality of the bounds and the point estimators are assessed on synthetic data and a large real-world customer data set provided by a telecom company, showing significant improvement over the state of the art.

In this paper we consider a hybrid elastic model consisting of a Timoshenko beam and a tip load at the free end of the beam. Under the equal speed wave propagation condition, we show polynomial decay for the model which includes the rotary inertia of the tip load when feedback boundary moment and force controls are applied at the point of contact between the beam and the tip load.

In this paper we consider second order evolution equations with unbounded dynamic feedbacks. Under a regularity assumption we show that observability properties for the undamped problem imply decay estimates for the damped problem. We consider both uniform and non uniform decay properties.

We consider N strings connected to one another and forming a particular network which is a chain of strings. We study a stabilization problem and precisley we prove that the energy of the solutions of the dissipative system decay exponentially to zero when the time tends to infinity, independently of the densities of the strings. Our technique is based on a frequency domain method and a special analysis for the resolvent. Moreover, by same appraoch, we study the transfert function associated to the chain of strings and the stability of the Schr\"odinger system., Comment: 28 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1005.2916

We report here the first realization of top-down silicon nanowires (SiNW) transduced by both junction-less field effect transistor (FET) and the piezoresistive (PZR) effect. The suspended SiNWs are among the smallest top-down SiNWs reported to date, featuring widths down to ~20nm. This has been achieved thanks to a 200mm-wafer-scale, VLSI process fully amenable to monolithic CMOS co-integration. Thanks to the very small dimensions, the conductance of the silicon nanowire can be controlled by a nearby electrostatic gate. Both the junction-less FET and the previously demonstrated PZR transduction have been performed with the same SiNW. These self-transducing schemes have shown similar signal-to-background ratios, and the PZR transduction has exhibited a relatively higher output signal. Allan deviation AD of the same SiNW has been measured with both schemes, and we obtain AD~20ppm for the FET detection and AD~3ppm for the PZR detection at room temperature and low pressure. Orders of magnitude improvements are expected from tighter electrostatic control via changes in geometry and doping level, as well as from CMOS integration. The compact, simple topology of these elementary SiNW resonators opens up new paths towards ultra-dense arrays for gas and mass sensing, time keeping or logic switching systems in SiNW-CMOS platform.

A one-dimensional Klein-Gordon problem, which is a physical model for a quantum particle submitted to a potential barrier, is studied numerically : using a variational formulation and a Newmark numerical method, we compute the mean position and standard deviation of the particle as well as their time evolution.