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TAFFY: A Task-Adaptive Tabular Foundation Model with In-Context Diversity
Zijian Li, Xiangchen Song, Gongxu Luo +7
Recent progress in tabular foundation models suggests that training on synthetic tasks can substantially improve in-context learning capabilities, with overall performance largely…
Hessian Rank Constraint for Learning Structure of Nonlinear Latent Variable Models
Zijian Li, Ruichu Cai, Feng Xie +7
Uncovering latent variables and their causal relations from observed data is a fundamental yet challenging problem. Existing methods often rely on restrictive assumptions, such as…
ChorusTIC: Training-Free Multivariate Time Series Classification via Chorus In-Context Learning
Juntao Fang, Shifeng Xie, Ruichu Cai +6
Time series classification underpins applications in healthcare, sensing, and industrial monitoring. Although time series foundation models support forecasting and transferable rep…
IADD-TR: Intervention-Aware Dynamics Decoupling with Targeted Regularization for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Zefeng Liang, Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai +2
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), which learns environment dynamics to generate synthetic experience, is a promising approach to sample-efficient decision making. Numerous…
Local Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables and Selection Bias
Zheng Li, Hao Zhang, Ruxin Wang +3
Discovering the direct causes and effects of a target variable from observational data is a fundamental problem in causal discovery, with broad applications in domains such as gene…
CDFM: Towards a General-Purpose Causal Discovery Foundation Model
Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai, Zijian Li +6
Causal discovery, the process of recovering underlying causal structures from observational data, is a fundamental pursuit across scientific disciplines. Over the past decades, num…
Rethinking Zero-Shot Time Series Classification: From Task-specific Classifiers to In-Context Inference
Juntao Fang, Shifeng Xie, Shengbin Nie +7
The zero-shot evaluation of time series foundation models (TSFMs) for classification typically uses a frozen encoder followed by a task-specific classifier. However, this practice…
Temporal Latent Variable Structural Causal Model for Causal Discovery under External Interferences
Ruichu Cai, Xiaokai Huang, Wei Chen +2
Inferring causal relationships from observed data is an important task, yet it becomes challenging when the data is subject to various external interferences. Most of these interfe…
Identification of Causal Direction under an Arbitrary Number of Latent Confounders
Wei Chen, Linjun Peng, Zhiyi Huang +4
Recovering causal structure in the presence of latent variables is an important but challenging task. While many methods have been proposed to handle it, most of them require stric…
Towards Identifiability of Hierarchical Temporal Causal Representation Learning
Zijian Li, Minghao Fu, Junxian Huang +5
Modeling hierarchical latent dynamics behind time series data is critical for capturing temporal dependencies across multiple levels of abstraction in real-world tasks. However, ex…
Online Time Series Forecasting with Theoretical Guarantees
Zijian Li, Changze Zhou, Minghao Fu +6
This paper is concerned with online time series forecasting, where unknown distribution shifts occur over time, i.e., latent variables influence the mapping from historical to futu…
Horizontal and Vertical Federated Causal Structure Learning via Higher-order Cumulants
Wei Chen, Wanyang Gu, Linjun Peng +3
Federated causal discovery aims to uncover the causal relationships between entities while protecting data privacy, which has significant importance and numerous applications in re…
Causal View of Time Series Imputation: Some Identification Results on Missing Mechanism
Ruichu Cai, Kaitao Zheng, Junxian Huang +4
Time series imputation is one of the most challenge problems and has broad applications in various fields like health care and the Internet of Things. Existing methods mainly aim t…
Long-Term Individual Causal Effect Estimation via Identifiable Latent Representation Learning
Ruichu Cai, Junjie Wan, Weilin Chen +4
Estimating long-term causal effects by combining long-term observational and short-term experimental data is a crucial but challenging problem in many real-world scenarios. In exis…
Nonparametric Heterogeneous Long-term Causal Effect Estimation via Data Combination
Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Junjie Wan +2
Long-term causal inference has drawn increasing attention in many scientific domains. Existing methods mainly focus on estimating average long-term causal effects by combining long…
Synergy Between Sufficient Changes and Sparse Mixing Procedure for Disentangled Representation Learning
Zijian Li, Shunxing Fan, Yujia Zheng +6
Disentangled representation learning aims to uncover latent variables underlying the observed data, and generally speaking, rather strong assumptions are needed to ensure identifia…
Time Series Domain Adaptation via Latent Invariant Causal Mechanism
Ruichu Cai, Junxian Huang, Zhenhui Yang +4
Time series domain adaptation aims to transfer the complex temporal dependence from the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain. Recent advances leverage the stable ca…
Disentangling Long-Short Term State Under Unknown Interventions for Online Time Series Forecasting
Ruichu Cai, Haiqin Huang, Zhifang Jiang +5
Current methods for time series forecasting struggle in the online scenario, since it is difficult to preserve long-term dependency while adapting short-term changes when data are…
Causal Effect Estimation under Networked Interference without Networked Unconfoundedness Assumption
Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Jie Qiao +2
Estimating causal effects under networked interference from observational data is a crucial yet challenging problem. Most existing methods mainly rely on the networked unconfounded…
Long-term Causal Inference via Modeling Sequential Latent Confounding
Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Yuguang Yan +2
Long-term causal inference is an important but challenging problem across various scientific domains. To solve the latent confounding problem in long-term observational studies, ex…
Advances in Temporal Point Processes: Bayesian, Neural, and LLM Approaches
Feng Zhou, Quyu Kong, Jie Qiao +3
Temporal point processes (TPPs) are stochastic process models used to characterize event sequences occurring in continuous time. Traditional statistical TPPs have a long-standing h…
Unifying Invariant and Variant Features for Graph Out-of-Distribution via Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency
Xuexin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Kaitao Zheng +4
Graph Out-of-Distribution (OOD), requiring that models trained on biased data generalize to the unseen test data, has considerable real-world applications. One of the most mainstre…
Learning Discrete Latent Variable Structures with Tensor Rank Conditions
Zhengming Chen, Ruichu Cai, Feng Xie +5
Unobserved discrete data are ubiquitous in many scientific disciplines, and how to learn the causal structure of these latent variables is crucial for uncovering data patterns. Mos…
Estimating Long-term Heterogeneous Dose-response Curve: Generalization Bound Leveraging Optimal Transport Weights
Zeqin Yang, Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai +7
Long-term treatment effect estimation is a significant but challenging problem in many applications. Existing methods rely on ideal assumptions, such as no unobserved confounders o…