Causal Inference
Causal inference aims to determine cause-and-effect relationships from data, going beyond mere correlations to understand how interventions impact outcomes. Current research heavily focuses on addressing challenges like confounding (the influence of unobserved variables), particularly in high-dimensional data and complex treatments (e.g., text, sequences of actions), employing methods such as structural causal models, Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), and various neural network architectures including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). These advancements are crucial for improving the reliability of causal conclusions across diverse fields, from medicine and economics to personalized interventions and policy-making.
Papers
Causal Reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A Systematic Review
Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo
Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects via Sufficient Representation Learning
Pengfei Shi, Wei Zhong, Xinyu Zhang, Ningtao Wang, Xing Fu, Weiqiang Wang, Yin Jin
Causal modelling without introducing counterfactuals or abstract distributions
Benedikt Höltgen, Robert C. Williamson
Establishing Causal Relationship Between Whole Slide Image Predictions and Diagnostic Evidence Subregions in Deep Learning
Tianhang Nan, Yong Ding, Hao Quan, Deliang Li, Lisha Li, Guanghong Zhao, Xiaoyu Cui