Identifiability guarantees for causal disentanglement from soft interventions

J Zhang, K Greenewald, C Squires… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal disentanglement aims to uncover a representation of data using latent variables that
are interrelated through a causal model. Such a representation is identifiable if the latent …

Identifying representations for intervention extrapolation

S Saengkyongam, E Rosenfeld, P Ravikumar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The premise of identifiable and causal representation learning is to improve the current
representation learning paradigm in terms of generalizability or robustness. Despite recent …

Learning world models with identifiable factorization

Y Liu, B Huang, Z Zhu, H Tian… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Extracting a stable and compact representation of the environment is crucial for efficient
reinforcement learning in high-dimensional, noisy, and non-stationary environments …

Structural estimation of partially observed linear non-gaussian acyclic model: A practical approach with identifiability

S Jin, F Xie, G Chen, B Huang, Z Chen… - The Twelfth …, 2023 - openreview.net
Conventional causal discovery approaches, which seek to uncover causal relationships
among measured variables, are typically fragile to the presence of latent variables. While …

When and how: Learning identifiable latent states for nonstationary time series forecasting

Z Li, R Cai, Z Yang, H Huang, G Chen, Y Shen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Temporal distribution shifts are ubiquitous in time series data. One of the most popular
methods assumes that the temporal distribution shift occurs uniformly to disentangle the …

Towards Generalizable Reinforcement Learning via Causality-Guided Self-Adaptive Representations

Y Yang, B Huang, F Feng, X Wang, S Tu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
General intelligence requires quick adaption across tasks. While existing reinforcement
learning (RL) methods have made progress in generalization, they typically assume only …

Learned Causal Method Prediction

S Gupta, C Zhang, A Hilmkil - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.03989, 2023 - arxiv.org
For a given causal question, it is important to efficiently decide which causal inference
method to use for a given dataset. This is challenging because causal methods typically rely …

Learning Discrete Concepts in Latent Hierarchical Models

L Kong, G Chen, B Huang, EP Xing, Y Chi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Learning concepts from natural high-dimensional data (eg, images) holds potential in
building human-aligned and interpretable machine learning models. Despite its …

Differentiable Causal Discovery For Latent Hierarchical Causal Models

P Prashant, I Ng, K Zhang, B Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.19556, 2024 - arxiv.org
Discovering causal structures with latent variables from observational data is a fundamental
challenge in causal discovery. Existing methods often rely on constraint-based, iterative …

From Orthogonality to Dependency: Learning Disentangled Representation for Multi-Modal Time-Series Sensing Signals

R Cai, Z Jiang, Z Li, W Chen, X Chen, Z Hao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Existing methods for multi-modal time series representation learning aim to disentangle the
modality-shared and modality-specific latent variables. Although achieving notable …