2 papers
cs.AI2026
Do Real-World Datasets Contain Natural Experiments? An Empirical Study Using Causal Feature Selection
Gautam Gare, John Galeotti, Michael Mozer +2
In nature, events that affect some individuals or groups but not others constitute an implicit intervention and are known as natural experiments. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic…
cs.LG2025
Can foundation models actively gather information in interactive environments to test hypotheses?
Danny P. Sawyer, Nan Rosemary Ke, Hubert Soyer +9
Foundation models excel at single-turn reasoning but struggle with multi-turn exploration in dynamic environments, a requirement for many real-world challenges. We evaluated these…