Methods and tools for causal discovery and causal inference

AR Nogueira, A Pugnana, S Ruggieri… - … reviews: data mining …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Causality is a complex concept, which roots its developments across several fields, such as
statistics, economics, epidemiology, computer science, and philosophy. In recent years, the …

Counterfactuals and causability in explainable artificial intelligence: Theory, algorithms, and applications

YL Chou, C Moreira, P Bruza, C Ouyang, J Jorge - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep learning models have achieved high performance across different domains, such as
medical decision-making, autonomous vehicles, decision support systems, among many …

Artificial Intelligence and Infectious Disease Imaging

WT Chu, SMS Reza, JT Anibal, A Landa… - The Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The mass production of the graphics processing unit and the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic have provided the means and the motivation, respectively, for rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating causal effects with optimization-based methods: A review and empirical comparison

M Cousineau, V Verter, SA Murphy, J Pineau - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the absence of randomized controlled and natural experiments, it is necessary to balance
the distributions of (observable) covariates of the treated and control groups in order to …

FLAME: A fast large-scale almost matching exactly approach to causal inference

T Wang, M Morucci, MU Awan, Y Liu, S Roy… - Journal of Machine …, 2021 - jmlr.org
A classical problem in causal inference is that of matching, where treatment units need to be
matched to control units based on covariate information. In this work, we propose a method …

Evaluating Pre-trial Programs Using Interpretable Machine Learning Matching Algorithms for Causal Inference

T Seale-Carlisle, S Jain, C Lee, C Levenson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
After a person is arrested and charged with a crime, they may be released on bail and
required to participate in a community supervision program while awaiting trial. These'pre …

Causality-driven Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems

L Giamattei, A Guerriero, R Pietrantuono… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Testing Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) is essential for safe development of self-driving
cars. For thorough and realistic testing, ADS are usually embedded in a simulator and tested …

The secrets of machine learning: Ten things you wish you had known earlier to be more effective at data analysis

C Rudin, D Carlson - … research & management science in the …, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
Despite the widespread usage of machine learning throughout organizations, there are
some key principles that are commonly missed. In particular,(1) there are at least four main …

Causal inference in data analysis with applications to fairness and explanations

S Roy, B Salimi - … Knowledge: 18th International Summer School 2022 …, 2023 - Springer
Causal inference is a fundamental concept that goes beyond simple correlation and model-
based prediction analysis, and is highly relevant in domains such as health, medicine, and …

Malts: Matching after learning to stretch

H Parikh, C Rudin, A Volfovsky - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2022 - jmlr.org
We introduce a flexible framework that produces high-quality almost-exact matches for
causal inference. Most prior work in matching uses ad-hoc distance metrics, often leading to …