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Discovering Agents
Zachary Kenton, Ramana Kumar, Sebastian Farquhar +3
Causal models of agents have been used to analyse the safety aspects of machine learning systems. But identifying agents is non-trivial -- often the causal model is just assumed by…
Counterfactual harm
Jonathan G. Richens, Rory Beard, Daniel H. Thompson
To act safely and ethically in the real world, agents must be able to reason about harm and avoid harmful actions. However, to date there is no statistical method for measuring har…
Learning medical triage from clinicians using Deep Q-Learning
Albert Buchard, Baptiste Bouvier, Giulia Prando +10
Medical Triage is of paramount importance to healthcare systems, allowing for the correct orientation of patients and allocation of the necessary resources to treat them adequately…
Leveraging directed causal discovery to detect latent common causes
Ciarán M. Lee, Christopher Hart, Jonathan G. Richens +1
The discovery of causal relationships is a fundamental problem in science and medicine. In recent years, many elegant approaches to discovering causal relationships between two var…
MultiVerse: Causal Reasoning using Importance Sampling in Probabilistic Programming
Yura Perov, Logan Graham, Kostis Gourgoulias +4
We elaborate on using importance sampling for causal reasoning, in particular for counterfactual inference. We show how this can be implemented natively in probabilistic programmin…
Counterfactual diagnosis
Jonathan G. Richens, Ciaran M. Lee, Saurabh Johri
Machine learning promises to revolutionize clinical decision making and diagnosis. In medical diagnosis a doctor aims to explain a patient's symptoms by determining the diseases \e…
Entanglement is necessary for emergent classicality in all physical theories
Jonathan G. Richens, John H. Selby, Sabri W. Al-Safi
One of the most striking features of quantum theory is the existence of entangled states, responsible for Einstein's so called "spooky action at a distance". These states emerge fr…
Finite-bath corrections to the second law of thermodynamics
Jonathan G. Richens, Álvaro M. Alhambra, Lluis Masanes
The second law of thermodynamics states that a system in contact with a heat bath can undergo a transformation if and only if its free energy decreases. However, the "if" part of t…
Entanglement is an inevitable feature of any non-classical theory
Jonathan G. Richens, John H. Selby, Sabri W. Al-Safi
One of the most striking features of quantum theory is the existence of entangled states, responsible for Einstein's so called "spooky action at a distance". These states emerge fr…
From single-shot to general work extraction with bounded fluctuations in work
Jonathan G. Richens, Lluis Masanes
In the standard framework of thermodynamics the work produced or consumed in a process is a random variable whose average value is bounded by the change in the free energy of the s…
Reversibility and the structure of the local state space
Sabri W. Al-Safi, Jonathan Richens
The richness of quantum theory's reversible dynamics is one of its unique operational characteristics, with recent results suggesting deep links between the theory's reversible dyn…
Criticality, factorization and long-range correlations in the anisotropic XY-model
Steve Campbell, Jonathan Richens, Nicola Lo Gullo +1
We study the long-range quantum correlations in the anisotropic XY-model. By first examining the thermodynamic limit we show that employing the quantum discord as a figure of merit…