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  • Review of Causal Discovery Methods Based on Graphical Models

    Clark Glymour, Kun Zhang, Peter Spirtes

    Frontiers in Genetics · 2019

    This paper aims to give a introduction to and a brief review of the computational methods for causal discovery that were developed in the past three decades, including constraint-based and score-based methods and those based on functional causal models, supplemented by some illustrations and applications.

    1,219
  • Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences

    Jakob Runge, Sebastian Bathiany, Erik M. Bollt, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Dim Coumou, Ethan R. Deyle, Clark Glymour, Marlene Kretschmer, +13 more

    Nature Communications · 2019

    An overview of causal inference frameworks is given, promising applications and methodological challenges are identified, and a causality benchmark platform is initiated to close the gap between method users and developers.

    1,074
  • Deep Domain Generalization via Conditional Invariant Adversarial Networks

    Ya Li, Xinmei Tian, Mingming Gong, Yajing Liu, Tongliang Liu, Kun Zhang, Dacheng Tao

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This work proposes an end-to-end conditional invariant deep domain generalization approach by leveraging deep neural networks for domain-invariant representation learning and proves the effectiveness of the proposed method.

    848
  • Domain Adaptation under Target and Conditional Shift

    Kun Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf, Krikamol Muandet, Zhikun Wang

    International Conference on Machine Learning · 2013

    This work considers domain adaptation under three possible scenarios, kernel embedding of conditional as well as marginal distributions, and proposes to estimate the weights or transformations by reweighting or transforming training data to reproduce the covariate distribution on the test domain.

    717
  • On causal and anticausal learning

    Dominik Janzing, Jonas Peters, Eleni Sgouritsa, Kun Zhang, Joris M. Mooij, Bernhard Schölkopf

    International Conference on Machine Learning · 2012

    The problem of function estimation in the case where an underlying causal model can be inferred is considered, and a hypothesis for when semi-supervised learning can help is formulated, and corroborate it with empirical results.

    699
  • On learning invariant representations for domain adaptation

    Han Zhao, Rémi Tachet des Combes, Kun Zhang, Geoffrey J. Gordon

    International Conference on Machine Learning · 2019

    This paper constructs a simple counterexample showing that, contrary to common belief, the above conditions are not sufficient to guarantee successful domain adaptation, and proposes a natural and interpretable generalization upper bound that explicitly takes into account the aforementioned shift.

    576
  • Causal discovery and inference: concepts and recent methodological advances

    Peter Spirtes, Kun Zhang

    Applied Informatics · 2016

    The constraint-based approach to causal discovery, which relies on the conditional independence relationships in the data, is presented, and the assumptions underlying its validity are discussed.

    411
  • SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting with Diffusion Model

    Shaoan Xie, Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Tobias Hinz, Kun Zhang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    This work proposes a new diffusion-based model named SmartBrush for completing a missing region with an object using both text and shape-guidance and shows that this model outperforms all baselines in terms of visual quality, mask controllability, and background preservation.

    395
  • Domain Adaptation with Conditional Transferable Components.

    Mingming Gong, Kun Zhang, Tongliang Liu, Dacheng Tao, Clark Glymour, Bernhard Schölkopf

    PubMed · 2016

    This paper aims to extract conditional transferable components whose conditional distribution P(T(X)∣Y) is invariant after proper location-scale (LS) transformations, and identifies how P(Y) changes between domains simultaneously.

    374
  • Kernel-based Conditional Independence Test and Application in Causal Discovery

    Kun Zhang, Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf

    arXiv · 2012

    346
  • Information-geometric approach to inferring causal directions

    Dominik Janzing, Joris M. Mooij, Kun Zhang, Jan Lemeire, Jakob Zscheischler A, Povilas Daniušis, Bastian Steudel, Bernhard Schölkopf

    Artificial Intelligence · 2012

    This work defines independence via orthogonality in information space so that it can explicitly describe the kind of dependence that occurs between P"Y and P"X"|"Y making the causal hypothesis ''Y causes X'' implausible.

    323
  • Geometry-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks for One-Sided Unsupervised Domain Mapping

    Huan Fu, Mingming Gong, Chao-Hui Wang, Kayhan N. Batmanghelich, Kun Zhang, Dacheng Tao

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    A geometry-consistent generative adversarial network (Gc-GAN) is developed, which enables one-sided unsupervised domain mapping and reduces the space of possible solutions while keep the correct solutions in the search space.

    272
  • On the Identifiability of the Post-Nonlinear Causal Model

    Kun Zhang, Aapo Hyvärinen

    arXiv · 2012

    229
  • Approximate Kernel-Based Conditional Independence Tests for Fast Non-Parametric Causal Discovery

    Eric V. Strobl, Kun Zhang, Shyam Visweswaran

    Journal of Causal Inference · 2018

    Two relaxations are devised called the Randomized Conditional Independence Test (RCIT) and the RCoT which both approximate KCIT by utilizing random Fourier features and return accurate p-values much faster than KCIT in the large sample size context.

    228
  • Generalized Score Functions for Causal Discovery

    Biwei Huang, Kun Zhang, Yizhu Lin, Bernhard Schölkopf, Clark Glymour

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) · 2018

    This paper introduces generalized score functions for causal discovery based on the characterization of general (conditional) independence relationships between random variables, without assuming particular model classes.

    212
  • Multi-Source Domain Adaptation: A Causal View

    Kun Zhang, Mingming Gong, Bernhard Schölkopf

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2015

    This paper uses causal models to represent the relationship between the features X and class label Y, and considers possible situations where different modules of the causal model change with the domain, to give an intuitive interpretation of the assumptions underlying certain previous methods.

    212
  • Causal-learn: Causal Discovery in Python

    Yujia Zheng, Biwei Huang, Wei Chen, Joseph Ramsey, Mingming Gong, Ruichu Cai, Shohei Shimizu, Peter Spirtes, +1 more

    arXiv · 2023

    This library focuses on bringing a comprehensive collection of causal discovery methods to both practitioners and researchers, and provides easy-to-use APIs for non-specialists, modular building blocks for developers, detailed documentation for learners, and comprehensive methods for all.

    183
  • DeepTrader: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Risk-Return Balanced Portfolio Management with Market Conditions Embedding

    Zhicheng Wang, Biwei Huang, Shikui Tu, Kun Zhang, Lei Xu

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    This paper proposes DeepTrader, a deep RL method to optimize the investment policy, which embeds macro market conditions as an indicator to dynamically adjust the proportion between long and short funds, to lower the risk of market fluctuations, with the negative maximum drawdown as the reward function.

    182
  • Causal Discovery from Nonstationary/Heterogeneous Data: Skeleton Estimation and Orientation Determination

    Kun Zhang, Biwei Huang, Jiji Zhang, Clark Glymour, Bernhard Schölkopf

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2017

    This paper proposes an enhanced constraint-based procedure to detect variables whose local mechanisms change and recover the skeleton of the causal structure over observed variables, and presents a way to determine causal orientations by making use of independence changes in the data distribution implied by the underlying causal model.

    163
  • Learning Disentangled Semantic Representation for Domain Adaptation

    Ruichu Cai, Zijian Li, Pengfei Wei, Jie Qiao, Kun Zhang, Zhifeng Hao

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    This work aims to extract the domain invariant semantic information in the latent disentangled semantic representation (DSR) of the data and devise a dual adversarial network to disentangle these two sets of reconstructed latent variables.

    160
  • Probabilistic latent variable models for distinguishing between cause and effect

    Oliver Stegle, Dominik Janzing, Kun Zhang, Joris M. Mooij, Bernhard Schölkopf

    neural information processing systems · 2010

    A novel method for inferring whether X causes Y or vice versa from joint observations of X and Y is proposed, which considers the hypothetical effect variable to be a function of the hypothetical cause variable and an independent noise term.

    143
  • On Learning Invariant Representation for Domain Adaptation

    Han Zhao, Rémi Tachet des Combes, Kun Zhang, Geoffrey J. Gordon

    arXiv · 2019

    128
  • On Estimation of Functional Causal Models

    Kun Zhang, Zhikun Wang, Jiji Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf

    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology · 2015

    This article shows that for any acyclic functional causal model, minimizing the mutual information between the hypothetical cause and the noise term is equivalent to maximizing the data likelihood with a flexible model for the distribution of the noiseTerm, and proposes a Bayesian nonparametric approach based on mutual information minimization.

    110
  • Inferring deterministic causal relations

    Povilas Daniušis, Dominik Janzing, Joris M. Mooij, Jakob Zscheischler A, Steudel, Bastian, Kun Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf

    arXiv · 2012

    105
  • Discovering Temporal Causal Relations from Subsampled Data

    Mingming Gong, Kun Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf, Dacheng Tao, Philipp Geiger

    MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 2015

    This paper proposes an Expectation-Maximization approach and a variational inference approach to recover temporal causal relations from such subsampled data and proves that if the noise terms are non-Gaussian, the underlying model for the highfrequency data is identifiable from subsampling data under mild conditions.

    100

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