Model-based causal Bayesian optimization

S Sussex, A Makarova, A Krause - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10257, 2022 - arxiv.org
How should we intervene on an unknown structural equation model to maximize a
downstream variable of interest? This setting, also known as causal Bayesian optimization …

Causal Bandits with General Causal Models and Interventions

Z Yan, D Wei, DA Katz, P Sattigeri… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper considers causal bandits (CBs) for the sequential design of interventions in a
causal system. The objective is to optimize a reward function via minimizing a measure of …

Adversarial Causal Bayesian Optimization

S Sussex, PG Sessa, A Makarova… - The Twelfth International …, 2023 - openreview.net
In Causal Bayesian Optimization (CBO), an agent intervenes on a structural causal model
with known graph but unknown mechanisms to maximize a downstream reward variable. In …

Combinatorial causal bandits without graph skeleton

S Feng, N Xiong, W Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13392, 2023 - arxiv.org
In combinatorial causal bandits (CCB), the learning agent chooses a subset of variables in
each round to intervene and collects feedback from the observed variables to minimize …

Robust causal bandits for linear models

Z Yan, A Mukherjee, B Varıcı… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sequential design of experiments for optimizing a reward function in causal systems can
be effectively modeled by the sequential design of interventions in causal bandits (CBs). In …

Learning good interventions in causal graphs via covering

A Sawarni, R Madhavan, G Sinha… - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the causal bandit problem that entails identifying a near-optimal intervention from
a specified set A of (possibly non-atomic) interventions over a given causal graph. Here, an …

Asymmetric Graph Error Control with Low Complexity in Causal Bandits

C Peng, D Zhang, U Mitra - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11240, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, the causal bandit problem is investigated, in which the objective is to select an
optimal sequence of interventions on nodes in a causal graph. It is assumed that the graph …

Robust causal bandits for linear models

Z Yan, A Mukherjee, B Varıcı, A Tajer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19794, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sequential design of experiments for optimizing a reward function in causal systems can be
effectively modeled by the sequential design of interventions in causal bandits (CBs). In the …

Graph Identification and Upper Confidence Evaluation for Causal Bandits with Linear Models

C Peng, D Zhang, U Mitra - ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the causal bandit problem is investigated, in which the objective is to select an
optimal sequence of interventions on nodes in a graph. By exploiting the causal …

Causal Contextual Bandits with Adaptive Context

R Madhavan, A Maiti, G Sinha, S Barman - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study a variant of causal contextual bandits where the context is chosen based on an
initial intervention chosen by the learner. At the beginning of each round, the learner selects …