16 papers
Causal Discovery in the Era of Agents
Yujia Zheng, Vishal Verma, Mantej Gill +3
Recent attempts to combine large language models (LLMs) with causal discovery ask models to infer pairwise directions, propose graph structures, or inject language-model outputs as…
Causal Modeling of Selection in Evolution
Haoyue Dai, Zeyu Tang, Peter Spirtes +1
Understanding potential selection in data is crucial for causal discovery; we argue that "selection" in common narratives takes two forms, which we term static and evolutionary sel…
Position: Beyond Sensitive Attributes, ML Fairness Should Quantify Structural Injustice via Social Determinants
Zeyu Tang, Alex John London, Atoosa Kasirzadeh +4
Algorithmic fairness research has largely framed unfairness as discrimination along sensitive attributes. However, this approach limits visibility into unfairness as structural inj…
Score-Based Causal Discovery of Latent Variable Causal Models
Ignavier Ng, Xinshuai Dong, Haoyue Dai +3
Identifying latent variables and the causal structure involving them is essential across various scientific fields. While many existing works fall under the category of constraint-…
Score-based Greedy Search for Structure Identification of Partially Observed Linear Causal Models
Xinshuai Dong, Ignavier Ng, Haoyue Dai +4
Identifying the structure of a partially observed causal system is essential to various scientific fields. Recent advances have focused on constraint-based causal discovery to solv…
Causal Representation Learning from General Environments under Nonparametric Mixing
Ignavier Ng, Shaoan Xie, Xinshuai Dong +2
Causal representation learning aims to recover the latent causal variables and their causal relations, typically represented by directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), from low-level obser…