Learning Flexible Time-windowed Granger Causality Integrating Heterogeneous Interventional Time Series Data

Z Zhang, S Ren, X Qian, N Duffield - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Granger causality, commonly used for inferring causal structures from time series data, has
been adopted in widespread applications across various fields due to its intuitive …

Flow-based perturbation for cause-effect inference

S Ren, P Li - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A new causal discovery method is introduced to solve the bivariate causal discovery
problem. The proposed algorithm leverages the expressive power of flow-based models and …

Variational flow graphical model

S Ren, B Karimi, D Li, P Li - Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces a novel approach embedding flow-based models in hierarchical
structures. The proposed model learns the representation of high-dimensional data via a …

Causal effect prediction with flow-based inference

S Ren, D Li, P Li - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Causal effect inference has many applications in data analysis and predictions, eg, user
behavior modeling, medical treatment effect prediction, etc. We introduce a new method to …

Learning latent structural relations with message passing prior

S Ren, H Fei, D Li, P Li - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Learning disentangled representations is an important topic in machine learning with a wide
range of applications. Disentangled latent variables represent interpretable semantic …

Enabling Causal Discovery in Post-Nonlinear Models with Normalizing Flows

N Hoang, B Duong, T Nguyen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04980, 2024 - arxiv.org
Post-nonlinear (PNL) causal models stand out as a versatile and adaptable framework for
modeling intricate causal relationships. However, accurately capturing the invertibility …

Recovering Linear Causal Models with Latent Variables via Cholesky Factorization of Covariance Matrix

Y Cai, X Li, M Sun, P Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00674, 2023 - arxiv.org
Discovering the causal relationship via recovering the directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure
from the observed data is a well-known challenging combinatorial problem. When there are …