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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…
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-…
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…
Distributional Equivalence in Linear Non-Gaussian Latent-Variable Cyclic Causal Models: Characterization and Learning
Haoyue Dai, Immanuel Albrecht, Peter Spirtes +1
Causal discovery with latent variables is a fundamental task. Yet most existing methods rely on strong structural assumptions, such as enforcing specific indicator patterns for lat…
Latent Variable Causal Discovery under Selection Bias
Haoyue Dai, Yiwen Qiu, Ignavier Ng +3
Addressing selection bias in latent variable causal discovery is important yet underexplored, largely due to a lack of suitable statistical tools: While various tools beyond basic…
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…
PersonaX: Multimodal Datasets with LLM-Inferred Behavior Traits
Loka Li, Wong Yu Kang, Minghao Fu +7
Understanding human behavior traits is central to applications in human-computer interaction, computational social science, and personalized AI systems. Such understanding often re…
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…
Generative Framework for Personalized Persuasion: Inferring Causal, Counterfactual, and Latent Knowledge
Donghuo Zeng, Roberto Legaspi, Yuewen Sun +4
We hypothesize that optimal system responses emerge from adaptive strategies grounded in causal and counterfactual knowledge. Counterfactual inference allows us to create hypotheti…
Causal Discovery and Counterfactual Reasoning to Optimize Persuasive Dialogue Policies
Donghuo Zeng, Roberto Legaspi, Yuewen Sun +4
Tailoring persuasive conversations to users leads to more effective persuasion. However, existing dialogue systems often struggle to adapt to dynamically evolving user states. This…
When Selection Meets Intervention: Additional Complexities in Causal Discovery
Haoyue Dai, Ignavier Ng, Jianle Sun +5
We address the common yet often-overlooked selection bias in interventional studies, where subjects are selectively enrolled into experiments. For instance, participants in a drug…
Reflection-Window Decoding: Text Generation with Selective Refinement
Zeyu Tang, Zhenhao Chen, Xiangchen Song +6
The autoregressive decoding for text generation in large language models (LLMs), while widely used, is inherently suboptimal due to the lack of a built-in mechanism to perform refi…
Permutation-Based Rank Test in the Presence of Discretization and Application in Causal Discovery with Mixed Data
Xinshuai Dong, Ignavier Ng, Boyang Sun +6
Recent advances have shown that statistical tests for the rank of cross-covariance matrices play an important role in causal discovery. These rank tests include partial correlation…
On the Parameter Identifiability of Partially Observed Linear Causal Models
Xinshuai Dong, Ignavier Ng, Biwei Huang +5
Linear causal models are important tools for modeling causal dependencies and yet in practice, only a subset of the variables can be observed. In this paper, we examine the paramet…
Long-Term Fairness Inquiries and Pursuits in Machine Learning: A Survey of Notions, Methods, and Challenges
Usman Gohar, Zeyu Tang, Jialu Wang +4
The widespread integration of Machine Learning systems in daily life, particularly in high-stakes domains, has raised concerns about the fairness implications. While prior works ha…
Counterfactual Reasoning Using Predicted Latent Personality Dimensions for Optimizing Persuasion Outcome
Donghuo Zeng, Roberto S. Legaspi, Yuewen Sun +4
Customizing persuasive conversations related to the outcome of interest for specific users achieves better persuasion results. However, existing persuasive conversation systems rel…
Gene Regulatory Network Inference in the Presence of Dropouts: a Causal View
Haoyue Dai, Ignavier Ng, Gongxu Luo +3
Gene regulatory network inference (GRNI) is a challenging problem, particularly owing to the presence of zeros in single-cell RNA sequencing data: some are biological zeros represe…