3 papers
cs.LG2026
Causal Atlases from Entropic Inference: Bayesian Networks beyond Optimal DAGs
Hazhir Aliahmadi, Irina Babayan, Greg van Anders
Data-driven causal relationship identification is pertinent to advancing understanding of complex systems both within and beyond science. Bayesian networks offer a probabilistic me…
cs.LG2026
Entropic Auto-Encoding via Implicit Free-Energy Minimization
Hazhir Aliahmadi, Irina Babayan, Greg van Anders
Despite their ubiquity, variational autoencoders (VAEs) inherently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which latent variables are effectively ignored. This failure ar…
cs.AI2023
Flashpoints Signal Hidden Inherent Instabilities in Land-Use Planning
Hazhir Aliahmadi, Maeve Beckett, Sam Connolly +2
Land-use decision-making processes have a long history of producing globally pervasive systemic equity and sustainability concerns. Quantitative, optimization-based planning approa…