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Unsupervised Causal Abstractions Discovery
Théo Saulus, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Dhanya Sridhar
Causal abstractions formalize when a high-level structural causal model (SCM) captures the interventional behavior of a lower-level SCM. Existing applications of this notion largel…
The Role of Causal Features in Strategic Classification for Robustness and Alignment
Antonio Gois, Sophia Gunluk, Nir Rosenfeld +3
In strategic classification, an institution (e.g., a bank) anticipates adaptation from users who change their features to increase utility in a classification task (e.g., loan repa…
Causality is Key for Interpretability Claims to Generalise
Shruti Joshi, Aaron Mueller, David Klindt +3
Interpretability research on large language models (LLMs) has yielded important insights into model behaviour, yet recurring pitfalls persist: findings that do not generalise, and…
Who Guards the Guardians? The Challenges of Evaluating Identifiability of Learned Representations
Shruti Joshi, Théo Saulus, Wieland Brendel +3
Identifiability in representation learning is commonly evaluated using standard metrics (e.g., MCC, DCI, R^2) on synthetic benchmarks with known ground-truth factors. These metrics…
From Isolation to Entanglement: When Do Interpretability Methods Identify and Disentangle Known Concepts?
Aaron Mueller, Andrew Lee, Shruti Joshi +3
A goal of interpretability is to recover disentangled representations of latent concepts (features) from the activations of neural networks. The quality of features is typically ev…
Sparse Shift Autoencoders for Identifying Concepts from Large Language Model Activations
Shruti Joshi, Andrea Dittadi, Sébastien Lachapelle +1
Unsupervised approaches to large language model (LLM) interpretability, such as sparse autoencoders (SAEs), offer a way to decode LLM activations into interpretable and, ideally, c…
The Landscape of Causal Discovery Data: Grounding Causal Discovery in Real-World Applications
Philippe Brouillard, Chandler Squires, Jonas Wahl +4
Causal discovery aims to automatically uncover causal relationships from data, a capability with significant potential across many scientific disciplines. However, its real-world a…
Causal Representation Learning in Temporal Data via Single-Parent Decoding
Philippe Brouillard, Sébastien Lachapelle, Julia Kaltenborn +6
Scientific research often seeks to understand the causal structure underlying high-level variables in a system. For example, climate scientists study how phenomena, such as El Niño…
Sparsity regularization via tree-structured environments for disentangled representations
Elliot Layne, Jason Hartford, Sébastien Lachapelle +2
Many causal systems such as biological processes in cells can only be observed indirectly via measurements, such as gene expression. Causal representation learning -- the task of c…
Demystifying amortized causal discovery with transformers
Francesco Montagna, Max Cairney-Leeming, Dhanya Sridhar +1
Supervised learning for causal discovery from observational data often achieves competitive performance despite seemingly avoiding the explicit assumptions that traditional methods…
Evaluating Interventional Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models
Tejas Kasetty, Divyat Mahajan, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite +2
Numerous decision-making tasks require estimating causal effects under interventions on different parts of a system. As practitioners consider using large language models (LLMs) to…
Estimating Social Influence from Observational Data
Dhanya Sridhar, Caterina De Bacco, David Blei
We consider the problem of estimating social influence, the effect that a person's behavior has on the future behavior of their peers. The key challenge is that shared behavior bet…