Causal structure learning: A combinatorial perspective

C Squires, C Uhler - Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2023 - Springer
In this review, we discuss approaches for learning causal structure from data, also called
causal discovery. In particular, we focus on approaches for learning directed acyclic graphs …

Gflownets for ai-driven scientific discovery

M Jain, T Deleu, J Hartford, CH Liu… - Digital …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Tackling the most pressing problems for humanity, such as the climate crisis and the threat
of global pandemics, requires accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. While science …

Dibs: Differentiable bayesian structure learning

L Lorch, J Rothfuss, B Schölkopf… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Bayesian structure learning allows inferring Bayesian network structure from data while
reasoning about the epistemic uncertainty---a key element towards enabling active causal …

Bayesdag: Gradient-based posterior inference for causal discovery

Y Annadani, N Pawlowski, J Jennings… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Bayesian causal discovery aims to infer the posterior distribution over causal models from
observed data, quantifying epistemic uncertainty and benefiting downstream tasks …

Design subspace learning: Structural design space exploration using performance-conditioned generative modeling

R Danhaive, CT Mueller - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Designers increasingly rely on parametric design studies to explore and improve structural
concepts based on quantifiable metrics, generally either by generating design variations …

Active learning for optimal intervention design in causal models

J Zhang, L Cammarata, C Squires, TP Sapsis… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Sequential experimental design to discover interventions that achieve a desired outcome is
a key problem in various domains including science, engineering and public policy. When …

Interventions, where and how? experimental design for causal models at scale

P Tigas, Y Annadani, A Jesson… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal discovery from observational and interventional data is challenging due to limited
data and non-identifiability which introduces uncertainties in estimating the underlying …

Active bayesian causal inference

C Toth, L Lorch, C Knoll, A Krause… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal discovery and causal reasoning are classically treated as separate and consecutive
tasks: one first infers the causal graph, and then uses it to estimate causal effects of …

Differentiable multi-target causal bayesian experimental design

P Tigas, Y Annadani, DR Ivanova… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We introduce a gradient-based approach for the problem of Bayesian optimal experimental
design to learn causal models in a batch setting—a critical component for causal discovery …

Learning neural causal models with active interventions

N Scherrer, O Bilaniuk, Y Annadani, A Goyal… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Discovering causal structures from data is a challenging inference problem of fundamental
importance in all areas of science. The appealing properties of neural networks have …