DCBO optimizes interventions in evolving causal systems.
problem Optimal interventions in time-varying causal systems.
method Combines sequential decision making, causal inference, and GP emulation.
result DCBO identifies optimal interventions faster than competitors.
IntDC framework uncovers causal relationships from non-interventional data.
problem Detecting causal relationships in non-interventional complex systems.
method Interventional Embedding Entropy (IEE) for causal strength measurement.
result IEE accurately finds causal edges and quantifies causal strength robustly.
In foreign exchange markets monotonic rate changes can be observed in time scale of order of an hour on the days that governmental interventions took place. We estimate the starting time of an intervention using this characteristic behavior of the exchange rates. We find that big amount of interventions can shift the a…
Extended LPCMCI learns causal models from interventional data to minimize prediction error.
problem Optimizing prediction of target variables using causal models.
method Combining observational and interventional causal discovery methods.
result Extended LPCMCI allows 60.9% optimal prediction of target variables compared to 53.6% with original LPCMCI.
Due to the recent advancements in wearables and sensing technology, health scientists are increasingly developing mobile health (mHealth) interventions. In mHealth interventions, mobile devices are used to deliver treatment to individuals as they go about their daily lives. These treatments are generally designed to im…
We propose a method for causal inference using satellite image time series, in order to determine the treatment effects of interventions which impact climate change, such as deforestation. Simply put, the aim is to quantify the 'before versus after' effect of climate related human driven interventions, such as urbaniza…
Synthetic Combinations learns unit-specific causal outcomes for combinatorial interventions.
problem Estimating unit-specific causal outcomes for all combinations of p interventions in a heterogeneous setting. method Latent factor model with Fourier expansion sparsity, imposing structure across units and interventions.
result Synthetic Combinations provides consistent estimation with poly(r) * (N + s^2p) observations, outperforming previous methods.
CAnDOIT discovers causal relationships using both observational and interventional time-series data.
problem Identifying causal relationships in the presence of hidden factors.
method CAnDOIT combines observational and interventional time-series data to reconstruct causal models.
result CAnDOIT effectively handles interventional data and enhances the accuracy of causal analysis.
We develop a model to predict effects of sequential interventions, clarifying their combined impact.
problem Uncertainty in generalizing behavioral predictions for combinations of interventions.
method Explicit model for composition of interventions, identifying their combined effect.
result Our compositional model aids prediction in sparse data conditions.
The paper proposes a new stochastic intervention control model conducted in various commodity and stock markets. The essence of the phenomenon of intervention is described in accordance with current economic theory. A review of papers on intervention research has been made. A general construction of the stochastic inte…
This study analyzes how colonial rice trade in prewar Japan affected its rice market, considering several government interventions in the two rice futures exchanges in Tokyo and Osaka. We explore the interventions in the futures markets using two procedures. First, we measure the joint degree of efficiency in the marke…
DoFlow models time series data for causal forecasting and anomaly detection.
problem Forecasting and causal reasoning in multivariate time series.
method Flow-based generative model over causal DAGs.
result Accurate interventional and counterfactual forecasting, anomaly detection.
Method learns causal effects from multiple interventions in presence of unobserved confounders.
problem Disentangling causal effects from sets of interventions in the presence of unobserved confounders.
method Non-linear structural causal models with additive, multivariate Gaussian noise; algorithm that learns causal model parameters by pooling data from different regimes and maximizing combined likelihood.
result Identification proofs demonstrate that causal effects of single interventions can be learned from sets of interventions, even with unobserved confounders.
TCFimt forecasts causal effects of multiple interventions from individual data.
problem Estimating causal effects of temporal multi-interventions from individual data.
method TCFimt uses adversarial tasks in seq2seq framework to alleviate bias and contrastive learning to decouple effects.
result TCFimt outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting future outcomes and choosing optimal treatments.
Novel approach to learn CTBNs from data with minimal interventions.
problem Learning CTBNs from time-course data with limited resources.
method Variational approximation of expected information gain for experimental design.
result Semi-analytical expression for structure and parameter learning.
Efficient algorithms learn causal graphs with minimal interventions.
problem Learning causal relationships between observed variables in the presence of latents.
method Bi-criteria approximation goal combining intervention design and graph property testing.
result Achieve intervention cost within a small constant factor of the optimal.
Meta-learning method for estimating time-varying mHealth intervention effects.
problem Complex mHealth data and uncertain randomization probabilities.
method DR-WCLS meta-learning procedure for causal excursion effects.
result More efficient and consistent estimates of causal excursion effects.
Optimal intervention in economic networks modeled as influence maximization, with hard computational problems.
problem Optimal intervention in economic networks modeled as influence maximization.
method Transformed into influence maximization-like form, with theoretical and practical implications.
result Optimal intervention is NP-hard and cannot be approximated to a constant factor in polynomial time.
Increasing technological sophistication and widespread use of smartphones and wearable devices provide opportunities for innovative and highly personalized health interventions. A Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) uses real-time data collection and communication capabilities of modern mobile devices to deliver…
We study the problem of efficiently estimating the effect of an intervention on a single variable (atomic interventions) using observational samples in a causal Bayesian network. Our goal is to give algorithms that are efficient in both time and sample complexity in a non-parametric setting. Tian and Pearl (AAAI `02) h…
Graph-coupled causal Bayesian optimization transfers information across related interventions.
problem Optimizing expensive systems where interventions are costly and causal effects are confounded.
method Ties intervention effects together through shared causal parameters, improving estimation.
result Information-gain and regret bounds show improved performance with shared mechanisms.
Paper tackles intervention extrapolation using identifiable representations.
problem Predicting effects of unseen interventions on outcomes.
method Combines identifiable representation learning with autoencoders to enforce linear invariance.
result Identifiable representations enable non-linear extrapolation of interventions.
We consider the problem of learning a causal graph over a set of variables with interventions. We study the cost-optimal causal graph learning problem: For a given skeleton (undirected version of the causal graph), design the set of interventions with minimum total cost, that can uniquely identify any causal graph with…
New algorithms verify and search causal graphs with minimal interventions.
problem Recovering causal graphs from interventional data.
method Characterization of minimal intervention sets for verification, and adaptive graph separator algorithm for search.
result First provable algorithms for efficient verification and search of causal graphs.
New method uncovers small but significant local activities in time-series data.
problem Reconstructing small but important local activities in time-series data.
method Neural state-space models with latent causal-effect disentanglement.
result Demonstrated proof-of-concept on reconstructing ectopic foci in cardiac electrical propagation.
Paper models treatment effects by clustering patients with distinct survival characteristics.
problem Estimating treatment efficacy in clinical settings with censored outcomes.
method Latent variable approach to model heterogeneous treatment effects.
result The latent structure can mediate base survival rates and reveal actionable phenotypes.
Proposes a model to estimate treatment effects in complex multiagent systems over time.
problem Challenges in evaluating interventions in multiagent systems, especially with time-varying relationships and covariates.
method Interpretable counterfactual recurrent network leveraging graph variational recurrent neural networks and domain knowledge.
result Achieved lower estimation errors and more effective treatment timing than baselines in simulated and real-world scenarios.
Develops a personalized reinforcement learning algorithm for dyadic health interventions.
problem Personalizing health interventions for dyadic relationships in mobile health.
method Dyadic Reinforcement Learning (dyadic RL), a Bayesian and hierarchical online algorithm.
result Established a regret bound and demonstrated empirical performance through simulations and real data.
Bayesian ARMA model with directional shifts captures structural breaks in compositional time series.
problem Structural breaks in compositional time series due to external shocks or policy changes.
method Developed a Bayesian Dirichlet ARMA model augmented with a directional-shift intervention mechanism.
result The model captures structural breaks through interpretable parameters and produces coherent probabilistic forecasts.
We consider testing and learning problems on causal Bayesian networks as defined by Pearl (Pearl, 2009). Given a causal Bayesian network M on a graph with n discrete variables and bounded in-degree and bounded `confounded components', we show that O(logn) interventions on an unknown causal Bayesian ne…
This paper identifies the minimal set of nodes for optimal conditional interventions in causal bandits.
problem Optimizing decision-making in causal bandits with conditional interventions.
method Graphical characterization and efficient algorithm to identify the minimal set of nodes.
result The proposed algorithm significantly prunes the search space and accelerates convergence rates.
Proposes a method to create robust linear models with noisy proxies of unobserved variables.
problem Learning robust linear models to handle interventions on unobserved variables with noisy proxies.
method Regularization term that balances in-distribution performance and robustness to interventions.
result Single proxy can create prediction optimal estimators under interventions of bounded strength.
Efficiently infers interventional distributions from observational data.
problem Inferring interventional distributions from limited observational data.
method Polynomial-time algorithm for causal Bayesian networks.
result Efficient algorithm for generating close approximations to interventional distributions.
Modeling government intervention's impact on company market technology growth.
problem Understanding how governments influence technology growth and innovation diffusion.
method Proposed a simple extension of TGID models, incorporating a government intervention parameter.
result High government intervention can destabilize market development, lowering technology levels.
Controlled interventions provide the most direct source of information for learning causal effects. In particular, a dose-response curve can be learned by varying the treatment level and observing the corresponding outcomes. However, interventions can be expensive and time-consuming. Observational data, where the treat…
Estimates joint causal effects using single-variable interventions on nonlinear models.
problem Estimating joint causal effects from single-variable interventions.
method Identifiability result and practical estimator for decomposing causal effects.
result Joint effects can be inferred without joint interventional data for nonlinear additive models.
Causal discovery from empirical data is a fundamental problem in many scientific domains. Observational data allows for identifiability only up to Markov equivalence class. In this paper we first propose a polynomial time algorithm for learning the exact correctly-oriented structure of the transitive reduction of any c…
This paper tackles CRL for multi-node interventions, achieving identifiability guarantees.
problem CRL under unknown multi-node interventions, focusing on single-node assumptions.
method Establishes identifiability results for general latent causal models under stochastic interventions.
result Identifiability up to ancestors using soft interventions, perfect identifiability using hard interventions.
We propose a simple method to learn linear causal cyclic models in the presence of latent variables. The method relies on equilibrium data of the model recorded under a specific kind of interventions ("shift interventions"). The location and strength of these interventions do not have to be known and can be estimated f…
Most approaches in algorithmic fairness constrain machine learning methods so the resulting predictions satisfy one of several intuitive notions of fairness. While this may help private companies comply with non-discrimination laws or avoid negative publicity, we believe it is often too little, too late. By the time th…
Unified RL survey for healthcare AI interventions.
problem Limited real-life application of RL in healthcare.
method Unified technical survey and case studies.
result Bridge between dynamic treatment regimes and mobile health.
Modern longitudinal studies collect feature data at many timepoints, often of the same order of sample size. Such studies are typically affected by {dropout} and positivity violations. We tackle these problems by generalizing effects of recent incremental interventions (which shift propensity scores rather than set tre…
We investigate the relationship between market efficiency of rice futures transaction in Osaka and the Japanese government intervention in rice distributions by directly buying and selling rice during the interwar period, from the middle 1910s to 1939, considering the context of "discretion versus rules." We use a time…
This work tackles causal graph discovery with stochastic interventions to minimize the number of interventions.
problem Discovering the true causal graph from observational data with limited interventions.
method Proposes a stochastic intervention model and studies verification and search problems with approximation algorithms.
result Provides approximation algorithms with competitive ratios for verification and search problems.
Causal diagrams based on do intervention are useful tools to formalize, process and understand causal relationship among variables. However, the do intervention has controversial interpretation of causal questions for non-manipulable variables, and it also lacks the power to check the conditions related to counterfactu…
Our goal is to identify beneficial interventions from observational data. We consider interventions that are narrowly focused (impacting few covariates) and may be tailored to each individual or globally enacted over a population. For applications where harmful intervention is drastically worse than proposing no change…
RoME optimizes mobile health interventions by modeling user and time-specific effects.
problem Challenges in optimizing mobile health interventions due to participant heterogeneity, nonstationarity, and nonlinear relationships.
method RoME uses a Robust Mixed-Effects contextual bandit algorithm with random effects, network cohesion penalties, and debiased machine learning.
result RoME achieves robust regret bounds even with complex baseline rewards, demonstrating superior performance in simulations and studies.
Paper proposes scalable algorithm to estimate intervention targets in linear models.
problem Estimating intervention targets in linear models from observational and interventional data.
method The paper proposes a scalable algorithm that estimates intervention sites from the difference between precision matrices of observational and interventional datasets.
result The algorithm consistently identifies all intervention targets and updates observational Markov equivalence classes to interventional ones.