Workshop
NeurIPS'24 Workshop on Causal Representation Learning
Guangyi Chen · Haoxuan Li · Sara Magliacane · Zhijing Jin · Biwei Huang · Francesco Locatello · Peter Spirtes · Kun Zhang
East Exhibition Hall C
Sun 15 Dec, 8:40 a.m. PST
Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques based on deep representations, such as GPT and Stable Diffusion, have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in analyzing vast amounts of data and generating coherent responses from unstructured data. They achieve this through sophisticated architectures that capture subtle relationships and dependencies. However, these models predominantly identify dependencies rather than establishing and making use of causal relationships. This can lead to potential spurious correlations and algorithmic bias, limiting the models’ interpretability and trustworthiness.In contrast, traditional causal discovery methods aim to identify causal relationships within observed data in an unsupervised manner. While these methods show promising results in scenarios with fully observed data, they struggle to handle complex real-world situations where causal effects occur in latent spaces when handling images, videos, and possibly text.Recently, causal representation learning (CRL) has made significant progress in addressing the aforementioned challenges, demonstrating great potential in understanding the causal relationships underlying observed data. These techniques are expected to enable researchers to identify latent causal variables and discern the relationships among them, which provides an efficient way to disentangle representations and enhance the reliability and interpretability of models.The goal of this workshop is to explore the challenges and opportunities in this field, discuss recent progress, and identify open questions, and provide a platform to inpire cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Schedule
Sun 8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
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Welcome Remarks
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Sun 8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
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Learning to Act in Noisy Contexts Using Deep Proxy Learning (Invited Talk by Arthur Gretton)
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Arthur Gretton 🔗 |
Sun 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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What Is a Causal Representation? (Invited Talk by Bernhard Schölkopf)
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Bernhard Schölkopf 🔗 |
Sun 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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Sun 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Towards Causal Foundation Model (Invited Talk by Cheng Zhang)
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Cheng Zhang 🔗 |
Sun 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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On Domain Generalization Datasets as Proxy Benchmarks for Causal Representation Learning
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Olawale Salaudeen · Nicole Chiou 🔗 |
Sun 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Uncovering Latent Causal Structures from Spatiotemporal Data
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Kun Wang 🔗 |
Sun 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Poster Session
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Sun 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch Break
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Sun 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Frontiers of Counterfactual Outcome Estimation in Time Series (Invited Talk by Yan Liu)
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Yan Liu 🔗 |
Sun 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Missing Data with ? and 0 Missingness Tokens: Identification and Estimation (Invited Talk by Ilya Shpitser)
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Sun 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break
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Sun 3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
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A Shadow Variable Approach to Causal Decision Making with One-sided Feedback
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Jianing Chu 🔗 |
Sun 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Uncertainty-Aware Optimal Treatment Selection for Clinical Time Series
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Cecilia Casolo 🔗 |
Sun 4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
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Panel Discussion
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Mingming Gong · Francesco Locatello · Jing Ma · Ricardo Silva 🔗 |
Sun 4:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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A Novel Application of SCMs to Time Series Counterfactual Estimation in the Pharmaceutical Industry ( Poster ) > link | Tomas Garriga · Gerard Sanz · Eduard Serrahima de Cambra · Axel Brando 🔗 |
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CSRec: Rethinking Sequential Recommendation from A Causal Perspective. ( Poster ) > link | Xiaoyu Liu · Jiaxin Yuan · Yuhang Zhou · Jingling Li · Furong Huang · Wei Ai 🔗 |
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Differentiable Causal Discovery for Latent Hierarchical Causal Models ( Poster ) > link | Parjanya Prashant · Ignavier Ng · Kun Zhang · Biwei Huang 🔗 |
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From Text to Treatment Effects: A Meta-Learning Approach to Handling Text-Based Confounding ( Poster ) > link | Henri Arno · Paloma Rabaey · Thomas Demeester 🔗 |
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Deep Learning Methods for the Noniterative Conditional Expectation G-Formula for Causal Inference from Complex Observational Data ( Poster ) > link | Sophia Rein · Jing Li · Miguel Hernan · Andrew Beam 🔗 |
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Leveraging a Simulator for Learning Causal Representations for CATE from Post-Treatment Covariates ( Poster ) > link | Lokesh N · Pranava Singhal · Avishek Ghosh · Sunita Sarawagi 🔗 |
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Learning Joint Interventional Effects from Single-Variable Interventions in Additive Models ( Poster ) > link | Armin Kekić · Sergio Garrido Mejia · Bernhard Schölkopf 🔗 |
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A Causality-Inspired Spatial-Temporal Return Decomposition Approach for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning ( Poster ) > link | Yudi Zhang · Yali Du · Biwei Huang · Meng Fang · Mykola Pechenizkiy 🔗 |
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Interaction Asymmetry: A General Principle for Learning Composable Abstractions ( Poster ) > link | Jack Brady · Julius von Kügelgen · Sébastien Lachapelle · Simon Buchholz · Wieland Brendel 🔗 |
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DAG-aware Transformer for Causal Effect Estimation ( Poster ) > link | Manqing Liu · David Bellamy · Andrew Beam 🔗 |
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Spectral Representation for Causal Estimation with Hidden Confounders ( Poster ) > link | Tongzheng Ren · Haotian Sun · Antoine Moulin · Arthur Gretton · Bo Dai 🔗 |
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Since Faithfulness Fails: The Performance Limits of Neural Causal Discovery ( Poster ) > link | Mateusz Olko · Mateusz Gajewski · Joanna Wojciechowska · Łukasz Kuciński · Mikołaj Morzy · Piotr Sankowski · Piotr Miłoś 🔗 |
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MACCA: Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Causal Credit Assignment ( Poster ) > link | Ziyan Wang · Yali Du · Yudi Zhang · Meng Fang · Biwei Huang 🔗 |
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Robust Multi-view Co-expression Network Inference ( Poster ) > link | Teodora Pandeva · Martijs Jonker · Leendert Hamoen · Joris Mooij · Patrick Forré 🔗 |
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LLMs as Emotion Analyzers for Causal Models: Partial Identification with Fuzzy Interval Data ( Poster ) > link | Huidi Ma · Wendao Xue · Yifan Yu 🔗 |
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General Causal Imputation via Synthetic Interventions ( Poster ) > link | Marco Jiralerspong · Thomas Jiralerspong · Vedant Shah · Dhanya Sridhar · Gauthier Gidel 🔗 |
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Score-Based Interaction Testing in Pairwise Experiments ( Poster ) > link | Jana Osea · Zuheng Xu · Cian Eastwood · Jason Hartford 🔗 |
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Causal Inference under Differential Privacy: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies ( Poster ) > link | Amirhossein Farzam · Guillermo Sapiro 🔗 |
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Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal Perspective ( Poster ) > link | Moritz Willig · Tim Nelson Tobiasch · Florian Peter Busch · Jonas Seng · Devendra S Dhami · Kristian Kersting 🔗 |
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Zero-Shot Learning of Causal Models ( Poster ) > link | Divyat Mahajan · Jannes Gladrow · Agrin Hilmkil · Cheng Zhang · Meyer Scetbon 🔗 |
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Improving Causal Transplant Outcomes through Dynamic Organ Offer Estimation ( Poster ) > link | Alessandro Marchese · Hans de Ferrante · Jeroen Berrevoets · Sam Verboven 🔗 |
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On the role of prognostic factors and effect modifiers in structural causal models ( Poster ) > link | Rianne M. Schouten 🔗 |
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Causal Representation Learning for Cross-Patient Seizure Classification ( Poster ) > link | Chunyuan Zheng · Taojun Hu · Yan Lyu · Chuan Zhou · Haoxuan Li · Xiao-Hua Zhou 🔗 |
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Minimally orthogonal causal effect estimation ( Poster ) > link | Yiman Ren · Daniel Clauw · Michael Burns · Maggie Makar 🔗 |
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Robust Domain Generalisation with Causal Invariant Bayesian Neural Networks ( Poster ) > link | Gaël Gendron · Michael Witbrock · Gillian Dobbie 🔗 |
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Uncertainty-Aware Optimal Treatment Selection for Clinical Time Series
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Thomas Schwarz · Cecilia Casolo · Niki Kilbertus 🔗 |
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Unifying Causal Representation Learning with the Invariance Principle ( Poster ) > link | Dingling Yao · Dario Rancati · Riccardo Cadei · Marco Fumero · Francesco Locatello 🔗 |
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Estimating Treatment Effect across Heterogeneous Data Sources: An Instrumental Variable Approach ( Poster ) > link | Haotian Wang · Haoxuan Li · Wenjing Yang · Hao Zou · Wanrong Huang · Kun Kuang 🔗 |
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Teaching Invariance Using Privileged Mediation Information ( Poster ) > link | Dylan Zapzalka · Maggie Makar 🔗 |
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On Domain Generalization Datasets as Proxy Benchmarks for Causal Representation Learning ( Oral ) > link | Olawale Salaudeen · Nicole Chiou · Sanmi Koyejo 🔗 |
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Causal Discovery in Linear Models with Unobserved Variables and Measurement Error ( Poster ) > link | Yuqin Yang · Mohamed Nafea · Negar Kiyavash · Kun Zhang · AmirEmad Ghassami 🔗 |
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Causal Retrieval with Semantic Consideration ( Poster ) > link | Hyunseo Shin · Wonseok Hwang 🔗 |
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A Shadow Variable Approach to Causal Decision Making with One-sided Feedback ( Oral ) > link | Jianing Chu · Shu Yang · Wenbin Lu · PULAK GHOSH 🔗 |
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Pilot Analysis for: Learning to Encode Multi-level Dynamics in Effect Heterogeneity Estimation ( Poster ) > link | Fucheng Warren Zhu · Connor Jerzak · Adel Daoud 🔗 |
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Causal Order Discovery based on Monotonic SCMs ( Poster ) > link | Ali Izadi · Martin Ester 🔗 |
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Beyond Causal Discovery for Astronomy: Learning Meaningful Representations with Independent Component Analysis ( Poster ) > link | Zehao Jin · Mario Pasquato · Benjamin Davis · Andrea Maccio · Yashar Hezaveh 🔗 |
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Unsupervised Causal Abstraction ( Poster ) > link | Yuchen Zhu · Sergio Garrido Mejia · Bernhard Schölkopf · Michel Besserve 🔗 |
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Uncovering Latent Causal Structures from Spatiotemporal Data ( Oral ) > link | Kun Wang · Sumanth Varambally · Duncan Watson-Parris · Yian Ma · Rose Yu 🔗 |