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  1. Robust Counterfactual Policy Optimisation via Nondeterministic Causal Models

    Aug 3, 2026Jessica Lally, Milad Kazemi, Nicola Paoletti +2Counterfactual RolloutsCounterfactual Reasoning

  2. RSC-GestureNet: Reliability-Aware Selective Causal Recognition of Chinese Traffic Police Gestures

    Aug 3, 2026Cheng Li, Renjun Gao, Boyi FuTraffic Sign RecognitionHand Gesture Recognition

  3. Bridging the English-Arabic Medical Knowledge Gap: Targeted Low-Rank Adaptation via Causal Layer Selection

    Jul 31, 2026Chaimae Abouzahir, Musa Khan, Hala Ali-Hassan +7Large Language Model AdaptationArabic Natural Language Processing

  4. AutoCause: A Python framework that automates expert decisions in environmental time-series causal discovery

    Jul 31, 2026Marco Ruiz, Miguel Arana-Catania, David R. Ardila +1Causal Foundation ModelsCausal Reasoning

  5. Why Are GUI Agents Correct but Late? Decode on the Decision-Time Critical Path, Tested with Pre-Compiled Policy Trees

    Jul 30, 2026Zihan Dong, Rui Qian, Qishi Zhan +3Graphical User Interface AgentsAgent Decisions

  6. Causal Discovery with Inverted Self-attention for Multivariate Time Series

    Jul 30, 2026Yusen Liu, Yong Wang, Yifan Yin +3Causal Foundation ModelsTime Series

  7. Hidden APIs in Language Models: Discovering Reusable Causal Interfaces from Forked Futures

    Jul 30, 2026SiYuan Ma, Yiqin Luo, Zhangji +8Hidden StatesTraining Language Models

  8. Back from the Future: Key-Value Cache Management by Counter-Causal Surprise

    Jul 30, 2026Stephen Gould, Anton van den HengelKey-Value CacheCache

  9. Same Evidence, Different Target: Decoding How Diagnostic Evidence Bears on Causal Questions from Language-Model States

    Jul 29, 2026Weiyi Kong, Zhuoran LiCausal ReasoningQuestion-Answer Pairs

  10. Localized Adaptation Reveals Distinct Learning Signatures in Transformers

    Jul 28, 2026Rebecca Ramnauth, Brian ScassellatiTransformer ArchitecturesDistributional Signatures

  11. From Training to Deployment: Post-Hoc Causal Feature Identification via Sensitivity Ratios

    Jul 28, 2026Athanasios Vlontzos, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Bernhard Kainz +1Model SensitivityCausal Reasoning

  12. Entangled by Design: Spurious Intra-Variable Signal Routing in Tabular In-Context Learners

    Jul 28, 2026Athanasios Vlontzos, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Bernhard Kainz +1In-Context LearningCausal Representation Learning

  13. Inferring Missing Trajectory Data with Temporal Convolutional Networks

    Jul 27, 2026Ilinca Tiriblecea, Gabriel TuriniciTemporal Convolutional NetworksTrajectory Prediction

  14. Causal-TS: A Python Library for Causal Discovery in High-Dimensional and Nonstationary Time Series

    Jul 27, 2026Mohammad FesangharyCausal Foundation ModelsCausal Reasoning

  15. Context-Aware Concept Distillation for Trustworthy Flood Prediction

    Jul 25, 2026Eli Levinkopf, Efrat Morin, Claudia V. GoldmanAccurate Flood PredictionSen1Floods11

  16. Beyond Directed Acyclic Graphs: Causal Zeros and Causal Differential Equations

    Jul 24, 2026Sergei V. KalininStructural Causal ModelCausal Reasoning

  17. CausalSmith: A Formally Grounded, Self-Improving Agentic Framework for Automated Research in Causal Inference

    Jul 24, 2026Jiyuan Tan, Vasilis SyrgkanisAutoresearchCausal Inferences

  18. Indexing: the Beginning and the End

    Jul 24, 2026Alexander Kozachinskiy, Vicente Opazo, Felipe UrrutiaNeural ArchitecturesInformation Bottleneck

  19. EviDAG: Auditable Causal DAG Authoring with Biomedical Literature

    Jul 23, 2026Yi-han Sheu, Michael R. Steigman, Yu Zhou +3Causal ReasoningReasoning Graphs

  20. Bounding the Causal Impact of ML-assisted Decision-Making via Counterfactual Correctness

    Jul 23, 2026Jonathan Zhang, Erik Skalnes, Jacob Chen +1Counterfactual ReasoningCausal Reasoning

  21. Encoding Invisible Causation for Bridge Diagnostic Agents: Triple-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning with QLoRA

    Jul 23, 2026Takato YasunoCausal ReasoningCausal Attention

  22. Logic Programming Semantics for Causal Processes

    Jul 23, 2026Felix WeitkämperInductive Logic ProgrammingCausal Reasoning

  23. How Rules Represent Causal Knowledge: Causal Modeling with Probabilistic Logic Programming

    Jul 23, 2026Kilian Rueckschloss, Felix WeitkaemperInductive Logic ProgrammingCausal Reasoning

  24. Automated Synthesis and Adversarial Validation of Executable Causal Research Pipelines

    Jul 23, 2026Irena Girshovitz, Dan Zeltzer, Ran Gilad-BachrachAutoresearchCausal Reasoning

  25. CEDAR: Causal Edge Discovery for Autoregressive Processes

    Jul 22, 2026Mohammad FesangharyConditional IndependenceCausal Reasoning

  26. Understanding the Impact of Linguistic Realization Choices on LLM Stance with Causal Tracing

    Jul 22, 2026Langchen Huang, Sebastian Padó, Franziska WeeberLinguisticsRewrite

  27. Spatial Reasoning in LLM Game Agents: Impact of Causal Context and Multi-Step Planning

    Jul 22, 2026Mohit Jiwatode, Ronja Fuchs, Robin Schmöcker +2Large Language Model AgentsSpatial Reasoning

  28. Local Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables and Selection Bias

    Jul 22, 2026Zheng Li, Hao Zhang, Ruxin Wang +3Causal Foundation ModelsCausal Reasoning

  29. Causal dictionary learning reveals and validates transcription-factor binding features in genomic language models

    Jul 21, 2026Sarwan AliSpatial TranscriptomicsUnsupervised Dictionary Learning

  30. Equilibrium Causal Games: Separation, Identification, and the Identifiability of Cyclic Latent States

    Jul 21, 2026Faraz Dadgostari, Neda NazemiStructural Causal ModelCausal Reasoning

  31. Temporal-Causal Unity as an Operational Framework for Collective Dynamics: Causal-Progress Clocks, Synchronization, and Polarization

    Jul 21, 2026Jian Liu, Dong SunCausal ReasoningTemporal Dynamics

  32. For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis

    Jul 20, 2026Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Shira WeinCausal ReasoningNext-Token Prediction

  33. An Adjoint-Sensitivity Framework for Lost-in-the-Middle Phenomena in Causal Residual Transformers

    Jul 20, 2026Cheng Huan, Hongwei YuanTransformer Residual StreamsModel Sensitivity

  34. Scalable Causal Imitation Learning

    Jul 18, 2026Eylam Tagor, Mingxuan Li, Elias BareinboimImitation LearningCausal Reasoning

  35. Counterfactual Shapley Credit Assignment

    Jul 18, 2026Mingxuan Li, Kai-Zhan Lee, Elias BareinboimCredit AssignmentCounterfactual Rollouts

  36. When Can Safe Controllers Adapt? Information before Commitment

    Jul 18, 2026Venkatesh SaligramaAdaptive ControllerSafety Constraints

  37. A Causal Markov Condition for Value

    Jul 18, 2026Olav Benjamin VassendCausal GraphConditional Independence

  38. Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery

    Jul 16, 2026Naren Vasantakumaar, Tom Schierenbeck, Michael BeetzExecutable Robot BehaviorRobot Systems

  39. WorkDrive: Roadwork Chain of Causation for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 16, 2026Tianyi Jiang, Wen Zhang, Sihan Yang +2Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Hard Drive Disassembly

  40. Analytic Abduction: Causal Decomposition and Governed Commitment for Human--AI Coordination

    Jul 16, 2026Remo PareschiHuman-Ai CollaborationAbductive Reasoning

  41. Analogical Deep Research: Retrieving and Integrating Historical Analogies for Foresight Analysis

    Jul 15, 2026Yongqiang Chen, Guangyi Chen, Yuewen Sun +1AnalogyAgentic Reasoning

  42. Resist and Update: Counterfactual Report Coordinates for Incentive-Compatible LLMs

    Jul 14, 2026Sen Yang, Yuen-Hei YeungCounterfactual ReasoningIncentives

  43. Solution of the Hempel's statistical ambiguity problem and Causal AI

    Jul 14, 2026Evgenii VityaevCausal ReasoningProbabilistic Inference

  44. Relaxing Faithfulness with Intervention-Only Causal Discovery

    Jul 13, 2026Bijan Mazaheri, Jiaqi Zhang, Caroline UhlerCausal Foundation ModelsConditional Independence

  45. StructAgent: Harness Long-horizon Digital Agents with Unified Causal Structure

    Jul 13, 2026Wenyi Wu, Sibo Zhu, Kun Zhou +3Agent FrameworkWorkflow Automation and Optimization

  46. Inter-Stop Energy Prediction and Causal Driver Quantification for Dual-Source Trolleybuses via a Time-Aware Tabular Deep Learning Architecture

    Jul 13, 2026Wentao Zeng, Zijian Huang, Yiming Bie +2Electricity Price ForecastingTransit Network Design

  47. SPARC-Net: A Spectral, Causality-Aware, and Hard-Constrained Physics-Informed Architecture for Stiff and Shock-Dominated Partial Differential Equations

    Jul 13, 2026Divyavardhan Singh, Dimple Sonone, Hammad Mohammad +1Partial Differential Equation BenchmarksPartial Differential Equations

  48. When the Reward Suite Is Leaky: A Preregistered Causal Contrast of Natural Verifier False Positives in RLVR

    Jul 13, 2026Chuyifei ZhangFalse Positive RateReinforcement Learning With Verifiable Reward

  49. Integrating Background Knowledge for Scalable Causal Discovery

    Jul 11, 2026Mátyás Schubert, Theofanis Aslanidis, Tom Claassen +1Causal Foundation ModelsCausal Graph

  50. CAAD: Causality-Aware Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection via Multi-Scale Alignment and Structural Causal Consistency

    Jul 9, 2026Xin Wang, Yunshi Wen, Yanan He +4Time-Series Anomaly DetectionAnomaly Detection

  51. Certified Interventional Fidelity: Anytime-Valid, Adaptive Evaluation of Causal Claims in Mechanistic Interpretability

    Jul 9, 2026Amir AsiaeeModel InterpretabilityMechanistic Interpretability

  52. CausalDS: Benchmarking Causal Reasoning in Data-Science Agents

    Jul 9, 2026Andrej Leban, Yuekai SunStructural Causal ModelCausal Reasoning

  53. 3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal Theory from Practitioner Discourse

    Jul 8, 2026Shyam Agarwal, Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner +1Code QualityArtificial Intelligence Reviewers

  54. From Graphs to Gradients: Physics-Inspired Structural Attribution for Cyber-Physical IoT Systems and Beyond

    Jul 6, 2026Spyridon Evangelatos, Christos Diou, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos +2Cyber-Physical SystemCausal Reasoning

  55. Wrong Before Right: Late Rescue and Interface Failure in Aligned Language Models

    Jul 6, 2026Jiaqi DengModel ActivationsWrong

  56. Causal ASCEND: Scalable Two-tier Causal Discovery on High Dimensional Multi-omics Data

    Jul 5, 2026Stephen Asiedu, David WatsonCausal Foundation ModelsGene-Regulatory Networks

  57. CausalGame: Benchmarking Causal Thinking of LLM Agents in Games

    Jul 5, 2026Zhenhao Chen, Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu +7Artificial Intelligence ScientistsLarge Language Model Agents

  58. MDL Meets Latent Confounders: LNML-based Causal Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Zhongyi Que, Shin Matsushima, Kenji YamanishiCausal Foundation ModelsLatent Confounders

  59. A Unified Framework for In-Context Learning with Causal and Masked Language Models

    Jul 5, 2026Chenrui Liu, Chuanlong Xie, Falong Tan +2In-Context LearningCausal Attention

  60. Optimizing Large Language Models for Causality Assessment in Pharmacovigilance: Developing a Performance Metric as Objective for Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimization

    Jul 4, 2026Nicole Sonne Heckmann, Arnault-Quentin Vermillet, Søren Norlin Mølgaard +4Causal ReasoningAgreement