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most citedLong-term Causal Effects Estimation via Latent Surrogates Representation Learning

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cs.LG2026

IADD-TR: Intervention-Aware Dynamics Decoupling with Targeted Regularization for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Zefeng Liang, Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai +2

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), which learns environment dynamics to generate synthetic experience, is a promising approach to sample-efficient decision making. Numerous…

cs.LG2026

CDFM: Towards a General-Purpose Causal Discovery Foundation Model

Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai, Zijian Li +6

Causal discovery, the process of recovering underlying causal structures from observational data, is a fundamental pursuit across scientific disciplines. Over the past decades, num…

cs.AI2026

Temporal Smoothness Doubly Robust Learning for Debiased Knowledge Tracing

Peilin Zhan, Wei Chen, Weilin Chen +2

Knowledge Tracing (KT) is fundamental to intelligent education systems, yet relies on educational logs that are selectively observed. The non-random nature of exercise recommendati…

cs.CV2026

Hierarchical Action Learning for Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation

Junxian Huang, Ruichu Cai, Hao Zhu +5

Humans perceive actions through key transitions that structure actions across multiple abstraction levels, whereas machines, relying on visual features, tend to over-segment. This…

cs.LG2025

Horizontal and Vertical Federated Causal Structure Learning via Higher-order Cumulants

Wei Chen, Wanyang Gu, Linjun Peng +3

Federated causal discovery aims to uncover the causal relationships between entities while protecting data privacy, which has significant importance and numerous applications in re…

cs.LG2025

Long-Term Individual Causal Effect Estimation via Identifiable Latent Representation Learning

Ruichu Cai, Junjie Wan, Weilin Chen +4

Estimating long-term causal effects by combining long-term observational and short-term experimental data is a crucial but challenging problem in many real-world scenarios. In exis…

cs.LG2025

Nonparametric Heterogeneous Long-term Causal Effect Estimation via Data Combination

Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Junjie Wan +2

Long-term causal inference has drawn increasing attention in many scientific domains. Existing methods mainly focus on estimating average long-term causal effects by combining long…

cs.LG2025

Causal Effect Estimation under Networked Interference without Networked Unconfoundedness Assumption

Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Jie Qiao +2

Estimating causal effects under networked interference from observational data is a crucial yet challenging problem. Most existing methods mainly rely on the networked unconfounded…

cs.LG2025

Long-term Causal Inference via Modeling Sequential Latent Confounding

Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Yuguang Yan +2

Long-term causal inference is an important but challenging problem across various scientific domains. To solve the latent confounding problem in long-term observational studies, ex…

cs.LG2024

Estimating Long-term Heterogeneous Dose-response Curve: Generalization Bound Leveraging Optimal Transport Weights

Zeqin Yang, Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai +7

Long-term treatment effect estimation is a significant but challenging problem in many applications. Existing methods rely on ideal assumptions, such as no unobserved confounders o…

cs.LG2024

From Orthogonality to Dependency: Learning Disentangled Representation for Multi-Modal Time-Series Sensing Signals

Ruichu Cai, Zhifang Jiang, Zijian Li +6

Existing methods for multi-modal time series representation learning aim to disentangle the modality-shared and modality-specific latent variables. Although achieving notable perfo…

cs.LG2024

Doubly Robust Causal Effect Estimation under Networked Interference via Targeted Learning

Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Zeqin Yang +4

Causal effect estimation under networked interference is an important but challenging problem. Available parametric methods are limited in their model space, while previous semipar…

cs.LG2023

Generalization bound for estimating causal effects from observational network data

Ruichu Cai, Zeqin Yang, Weilin Chen +2

Estimating causal effects from observational network data is a significant but challenging problem. Existing works in causal inference for observational network data lack an analys…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Long-term Causal Effects Estimation via Latent Surrogates Representation Learning

Ruichu Cai, Weilin Chen, Zeqin Yang +4

Estimating long-term causal effects based on short-term surrogates is a significant but challenging problem in many real-world applications, e.g., marketing and medicine. Despite i…

cs.LG2021

On the Role of Entropy-based Loss for Learning Causal Structures with Continuous Optimization

Weilin Chen, Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai +1

Causal discovery from observational data is an important but challenging task in many scientific fields. Recently, a method with non-combinatorial directed acyclic constraint, call…