Workshop
Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why now?
Elias Bareinboim 路 Bernhard Sch枚lkopf 路 Terrence Sejnowski 路 Yoshua Bengio 路 Judea Pearl
Mon 13 Dec, 7 a.m. PST
Machine Learning has been extremely successful throughout many critical areas, including computer vision, natural language processing, and game-playing. Still, a growing segment of the machine learning community recognizes that there are still fundamental pieces missing from the AI puzzle, among them causal inference.
This recognition comes from the observation that even though causality is a central component found throughout the sciences, engineering, and many other aspects of human cognition, explicit reference to causal relationships is largely missing in current learning systems. This entails a new goal of integrating causal inference and machine learning capabilities into the next generation of intelligent systems, thus paving the way towards higher levels of intelligence and human-centric AI. The synergy goes in both directions; causal inference benefitting from machine learning and the other way around. Current machine learning systems lack the ability to leverage the invariances imprinted by the underlying causal mechanisms towards reasoning about generalizability, explainability, interpretability, and robustness. Current causal inference methods, on the other hand, lack the ability to scale up to high-dimensional settings, where current machine learning systems excel.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both camps to initiate principled discussions about the integration of causal reasoning and machine learning perspectives to help tackle the challenging AI tasks of the coming decades. We welcome researchers from all relevant disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, cognitive science, robotics, mathematics, statistics, physics, and philosophy.
Schedule
Mon 7:00 a.m. - 7:10 a.m.
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Intro
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Intro
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Mon 7:10 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
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Uri Shalit - Calibration, out-of-distribution generalization and a path towards causal representations
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Invited Talk
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Uri Shalit 馃敆 |
Mon 7:30 a.m. - 7:50 a.m.
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Julius von K眉gelgen - Independent mechanism analysis, a new concept?
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Invited Talk
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Julius von K眉gelgen 馃敆 |
Mon 7:50 a.m. - 8:10 a.m.
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David Blei - On the Assumptions of Synthetic Control Methods
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Invited Talk
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David Blei 馃敆 |
Mon 8:10 a.m. - 8:25 a.m.
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Session 1: Q&A
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Q&A
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Mon 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
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Ricardo Silva - The Road to Causal Programming
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Invited Talk
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Ricardo Silva 馃敆 |
Mon 8:50 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
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Aapo Hyvarinen - Causal discovery by generative modelling
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Invited Talk
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Aapo Hyvarinen 馃敆 |
Mon 9:10 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.
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Tobias Gerstenberg - Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition
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Invited Talk
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Tobias Gerstenberg 馃敆 |
Mon 9:35 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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Session 2: Q&A
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Q&A
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Mon 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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Mon 10:45 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.
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Thomas Icard - A (topo)logical perspective on causal inference
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Invited Talk
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Thomas Icard 馃敆 |
Mon 11:05 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.
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Caroline Uhler: TBA
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Invited Talk
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Caroline Uhler 馃敆 |
Mon 11:25 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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Rosemary Ke - From "What" to "Why": towards causal learning
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Invited Talk
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Nan Rosemary Ke 馃敆 |
Mon 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Session 3: Q&A
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Q&A
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Mon 12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
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Judea Pearl - The logic of Causal Inference
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Keynote Speaker
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Mon 12:45 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Discussion Panel
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Mon 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
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Zaffalon, Antonucci, Caba帽as - Causal Expectation-Maximisation
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Marco Zaffalon 路 Alessandro Antonucci 路 Rafael Caba帽as 馃敆 |
Mon 1:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Dominguez Olmedo, Karimi, Sch枚lkopf - On the Adversarial Robustness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse
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Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo 路 Amir Karimi 路 Bernhard Sch枚lkopf 馃敆 |
Mon 1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
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Javidian, Pandey, Jamshidi - Scalable Causal Domain Adaptation
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Mohammad Ali Javidian 路 Om Pandey 路 Pooyan Jamshidi 馃敆 |
Mon 1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Cundy, Grover, Ermon - BCD Nets: Scalable Variational Approaches for Bayesian Causal Discovery
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Chris Cundy 路 Aditya Grover 路 Stefano Ermon 馃敆 |
Mon 2:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
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Alison Gopnik - Casual Learning in Children and Computational Models
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Invited Talk
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Alison Gopnik 馃敆 |
Mon 2:20 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
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Ad猫le Ribeiro - Effect Identification in Cluster Causal Diagrams
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Ad猫le Ribeiro 馃敆 |
Mon 2:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Victor Chernozhukov - Omitted Confounder Bias Bounds for Machine Learned Causal Models
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Invited Talk
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Victor Chernozhukov 馃敆 |
Mon 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Session 4: Q&A
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Q&A
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Mon 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
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Unsupervised Causal Binary Concepts Discovery with VAE for Black-box Model Explanation
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Poster
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Thien Tran 路 Kazuto Fukuchi 路 Youhei Akimoto 路 Jun Sakuma 馃敆 |
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Encoding Causal Macrovariables
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Poster
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Benedikt H枚ltgen 馃敆 |
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Amortized Causal Discovery: Learning to Infer Causal Graphs from Time-Series Data
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Poster
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Sindy L枚we 路 David Madras 路 Richard Zemel 路 Max Welling 馃敆 |
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Disentangling Causal Effects from Sets of Interventions in the Presence of Unobserved Confounders
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Poster
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Olivier Jeunen 路 Ciaran Gilligan-Lee 路 Rishabh Mehrotra 路 Mounia Lalmas 馃敆 |
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Typing assumptions improve identification in causal discovery
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Poster
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Philippe Brouillard 路 Perouz Taslakian 路 Alexandre Lacoste 路 S茅bastien Lachapelle 路 Alexandre Drouin 馃敆 |
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Prequential MDL for Causal Structure Learning with Neural Networks
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Poster
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Jorg Bornschein 路 Silvia Chiappa 路 Alan Malek 路 Nan Rosemary Ke 馃敆 |
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MANM-CS: Data Generation for Benchmarking Causal Structure Learning from Mixed Discrete-Continuous and Nonlinear Data
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Poster
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Johannes Huegle 路 Christopher Hagedorn 路 Jonas Umland 路 Rainer Schlosser 馃敆 |
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DiBS: Differentiable Bayesian Structure Learning
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Poster
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Lars Lorch 路 Jonas Rothfuss 路 Bernhard Sch枚lkopf 路 Andreas Krause 馃敆 |
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Learning Neural Causal Models with Active Interventions
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Poster
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Nino Scherrer 路 Olexa Bilaniuk 路 Yashas Annadani 路 Anirudh Goyal 路 Patrick Schwab 路 Bernhard Sch枚lkopf 路 Michael Mozer 路 Yoshua Bengio 路 Stefan Bauer 路 Nan Rosemary Ke 馃敆 |
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Identification of Latent Graphs: A Quantum Entropic Approach
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Poster
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Mohammad Ali Javidian 路 Vaneet Aggarwal 路 Zubin Jacob 馃敆 |
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Reliable causal discovery based on mutual information supremum principle for finite datasets
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Poster
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Vincent Cabeli 路 Honghao Li 路 Marcel da C芒mara Ribeiro Dantas 路 Herve Isambert 馃敆 |
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Scalable Causal Domain Adaptation
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Poster
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Mohammad Ali Javidian 路 Om Pandey 路 Pooyan Jamshidi 馃敆 |
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Learning preventative and generative causal structures from point events in continuous time
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Poster
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Tianwei Gong 馃敆 |
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Building Object-based Causal Programs for Human-like Generalization
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Poster
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Bonan Zhao 路 Chris Lucas 馃敆 |
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On the Robustness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse
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Poster
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Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo 路 Amir Karimi 路 Bernhard Sch枚lkopf 馃敆 |
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Desiderata for Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective
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Poster
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Yixin Wang 路 Michael Jordan 馃敆 |
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Scalable Variational Approaches for Bayesian Causal Discovery
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Poster
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Chris Cundy 路 Aditya Grover 路 Stefano Ermon 馃敆 |
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Individual treatment effect estimation in the presence of unobserved confounding based on a fixed relative treatment effect
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Poster
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Wouter van Amsterdam 路 Rajesh Ranganath 馃敆 |
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A Tree-based Model Averaging Approach for Personalized Treatment Effect Estimation from Heterogeneous Data Sources
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Poster
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Xiaoqing Tan 路 Lu Tang 馃敆 |
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Multiple Environments Can Reduce Indeterminacy in VAEs
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Poster
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Quanhan (Johnny) Xi 路 Benjamin Bloem-Reddy 馃敆 |
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Using Embeddings to Estimate Peer Influence on Social Networks
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Poster
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Irina Cristali 路 Victor Veitch 馃敆 |
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Using Non-Linear Causal Models to StudyAerosol-Cloud Interactions in the Southeast Pacific
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Poster
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Andrew Jesson 路 Peter Manshausen 路 Alyson Douglas 路 Duncan Watson-Parris 路 Yarin Gal 路 Philip Stier 馃敆 |
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Synthesis of Reactive Programs with Structured Latent State
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Poster
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Ria Das 路 Zenna Tavares 路 Armando Solar-Lezama 路 Josh Tenenbaum 馃敆 |
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Causal Inference Using Tractable Circuits
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Poster
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Adnan Darwiche 馃敆 |
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Causal Expectation-Maximisation
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Poster
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Marco Zaffalon 路 Alessandro Antonucci 路 Rafael Caba帽as 馃敆 |