Causal imitability under context-specific independence relations

F Jamshidi, S Akbari… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Drawbacks of ignoring the causal mechanisms when performing imitation learning have
recently been acknowledged. Several approaches both to assess the feasibility of imitation …

Identification of Average Causal Effects in Confounded Additive Noise Models

MQ Elahi, M Ghasemi, M Kocaoglu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.10014, 2024 - arxiv.org
Additive noise models (ANMs) are an important setting studied in causal inference. Most of
the existing works on ANMs assume causal sufficiency, ie, there are no unobserved …

Causal effect identification in uncertain causal networks

S Akbari, F Jamshidi, E Mokhtarian… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal identification is at the core of the causal inference literature, where complete
algorithms have been proposed to identify causal queries of interest. The validity of these …

Triple changes estimator for targeted policies

S Akbari, N Kiyavash - Forty-first International Conference on …, 2024 - openreview.net
The renowned difference-in-differences (DiD) estimator relies on the assumption of'parallel
trends,'which may not hold in many practical applications. To address this issue, economists …

Fast Proxy Experiment Design for Causal Effect Identification

S Elahi, S Akbari, J Etesami, N Kiyavash… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Identifying causal effects is a key problem of interest across many disciplines. The two long-
standing approaches to estimate causal effects are observational and experimental …

Targeted causal elicitation

N Ibrahim, ST John, Z Guo, S Kaski - NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on …, 2022 - openreview.net
We look at the problem of learning causal structure for a fixed downstream causal effect
optimization task. In contrast to previous work which often focuses on running interventional …

Experimental design for causal effect identification

S Akbari, J Etesami, N Kiyavash - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.02232, 2022 - arxiv.org
Pearl's do calculus is a complete axiomatic approach to learn the identifiable causal effects
from observational data. When such an effect is not identifiable, it is necessary to perform a …

[PDF][PDF] Internship proposal Cost-effective interventional design for identifying causal effects in summary causal graphs

C Assaad - ckassaad.github.io
Context: Epidemiology critically depends on understanding causal relationships to
effectively address public health challenges. Theoretical advancements, such as those …