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Transportable Causal Effect Estimation across Networks under Interference
Xiaojing Du, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +3
Estimating causal effects under network interference typically assumes that the network used for training and the network used for deployment coincide. In practice, an intervention…
Lightweight Wrappers for Adapting Time Series Foundation Models to Regional Drought Forecasting
Wentao Gao, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +4
Large \emph{Time Series Foundation Models} (TSFMs) demonstrate strong zero-shot forecasting capabilities across diverse domains. However, their application to regional climate fore…
Residual-Guided Multi-Resolution Refinement of Foundation Models: A Case Study in Drought Forecasting
Wentao Gao, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +4
Regional climate prediction presents unique challenges for time series foundation models, which typically process temporal patterns through single-pass inference. Expert climatolog…
uLEAD-TabPFN: Uncertainty-aware Dependency-based Anomaly Detection with TabPFN
Sha Lu, Jixue Liu, Stefan Peters +4
Anomaly detection in tabular data is challenging due to high dimensionality, complex feature dependencies, and heterogeneous noise. Many existing methods rely on proximity-based cu…
Identifying the Group to Intervene on to Maximize Effect Under Cross-Group Interference
Xiaojing Du, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +3
In many networked systems, interventions applied to one group of units can induce substantial causal effects on another group through cross-group interference pathways. Despite its…
Disentangled Instrumental Variables for Causal Inference with Networked Observational Data
Zhirong Huang, Debo Cheng, Guixian Zhang +3
Instrumental variables (IVs) are crucial for addressing unobservable confounders, yet their stringent exogeneity assumptions pose significant challenges in networked data. Existing…
Learning Fair Graph Representations with Multi-view Information Bottleneck
Chuxun Liu, Debo Cheng, Qingfeng Chen +3
Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel on relational data by passing messages over node features and structure, but they can amplify training data biases, propagating discriminatory at…
From Noise to Precision: A Diffusion-Driven Approach to Zero-Inflated Precipitation Prediction
Wentao Gao, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +6
Zero-inflated data pose significant challenges in precipitation forecasting due to the predominance of zeros with sparse non-zero events. To address this, we propose the Zero Infla…
Peer Effect Estimation in the Presence of Simultaneous Feedback and Unobserved Confounders
Xiaojing Du, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +2
Estimating peer causal effects within complex real-world networks such as social networks is challenging, primarily due to simultaneous feedback between peers and unobserved confou…
A Novel Generative Model with Causality Constraint for Mitigating Biases in Recommender Systems
Jianfeng Deng, Qingfeng Chen, Debo Cheng +3
Accurately predicting counterfactual user feedback is essential for building effective recommender systems. However, latent confounding bias can obscure the true causal relationshi…
Counterfactual Samples Constructing and Training for Commonsense Statements Estimation
Chong Liu, Zaiwen Feng, Lin Liu +5
Plausibility Estimation (PE) plays a crucial role for enabling language models to objectively comprehend the real world. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable c…
Disentangled Representation Learning for Causal Inference with Instruments
Debo Cheng, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +4
Latent confounders are a fundamental challenge for inferring causal effects from observational data. The instrumental variable (IV) approach is a practical way to address this chal…
Leaning Time-Varying Instruments for Identifying Causal Effects in Time-Series Data
Debo Cheng, Ziqi Xu, Jiuyong Li +4
Querying causal effects from time-series data is important across various fields, including healthcare, economics, climate science, and epidemiology. However, this task becomes com…
Towards Fair Graph Representation Learning in Social Networks
Guixian Zhang, Guan Yuan, Debo Cheng +3
With the widespread use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning from network data, the fairness of GNN models has raised great attention lately. Fair GNNs aim t…
Linking Model Intervention to Causal Interpretation in Model Explanation
Debo Cheng, Ziqi Xu, Jiuyong Li +4
Intervention intuition is often used in model explanation where the intervention effect of a feature on the outcome is quantified by the difference of a model prediction when the f…
Mitigating Dual Latent Confounding Biases in Recommender Systems
Jianfeng Deng, Qingfeng Chen, Debo Cheng +3
Recommender systems are extensively utilised across various areas to predict user preferences for personalised experiences and enhanced user engagement and satisfaction. Traditiona…
Multi-Cause Deconfounding for Recommender Systems with Latent Confounders
Zhirong Huang, Shichao Zhang, Debo Cheng +3
In recommender systems, various latent confounding factors (e.g., user social environment and item public attractiveness) can affect user behavior, item exposure, and feedback in d…
TSI: A Multi-View Representation Learning Approach for Time Series Forecasting
Wentao Gao, Ziqi Xu, Jiuyong Li +6
As the growing demand for long sequence time-series forecasting in real-world applications, such as electricity consumption planning, the significance of time series forecasting be…
Is it Still Fair? A Comparative Evaluation of Fairness Algorithms through the Lens of Covariate Drift
Oscar Blessed Deho, Michael Bewong, Selasi Kwashie +4
Over the last few decades, machine learning (ML) applications have grown exponentially, yielding several benefits to society. However, these benefits are tempered with concerns of…
Estimating Peer Direct and Indirect Effects in Observational Network Data
Xiaojing Du, Jiuyong Li, Debo Cheng +3
Estimating causal effects is crucial for decision-makers in many applications, but it is particularly challenging with observational network data due to peer interactions. Many alg…
Mitigating Propensity Bias of Large Language Models for Recommender Systems
Guixian Zhang, Guan Yuan, Debo Cheng +3
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) creates new opportunities for recommender systems, especially by exploiting the side information (e.g., descriptions and analy…
Debiased Contrastive Representation Learning for Mitigating Dual Biases in Recommender Systems
Zhirong Huang, Shichao Zhang, Debo Cheng +3
In recommender systems, popularity and conformity biases undermine recommender effectiveness by disproportionately favouring popular items, leading to their over-representation in…
Causal Effect Estimation using identifiable Variational AutoEncoder with Latent Confounders and Post-Treatment Variables
Yang Xie, Ziqi Xu, Debo Cheng +4
Estimating causal effects from observational data is challenging, especially in the presence of latent confounders. Much work has been done on addressing this challenge, but most o…
Deconfounding Multi-Cause Latent Confounders: A Factor-Model Approach to Climate Model Bias Correction
Wentao Gao, Jiuyong Li, Debo Cheng +7
Global Climate Models (GCMs) are crucial for predicting future climate changes by simulating the Earth systems. However, the GCM Outputs exhibit systematic biases due to model unce…