2 papers
stat.ML2025
Front-door Reducibility: Reducing ADMGs to the Standard Front-door Setting via a Graphical Criterion
Jianqiao Mao, Max A. Little
Front-door adjustment gives a simple closed-form identification formula under the classical front-door criterion, but its applicability is often viewed as narrow. By contrast, the…
cs.LG2025
Mechanism Learning: reverse causal inference in the presence of multiple unknown confounding through causally weighted Gaussian mixture models
Jianqiao Mao, Max A. Little
A major limitation of machine learning (ML) prediction models is that they recover associational, rather than causal, predictive relationships between variables. In high-stakes aut…