Search Results for author: Jalal Etesami

Found 18 papers, 2 papers with code

Confounded Budgeted Causal Bandits

no code implementations15 Jan 2024 Fateme Jamshidi, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

This algorithm generalizes the state-of-the-art methods by allowing non-uniform costs and hidden confounders in the causal graph.

Modeling Systemic Risk: A Time-Varying Nonparametric Causal Inference Framework

no code implementations27 Dec 2023 Jalal Etesami, Ali Habibnia, Negar Kiyavash

We propose a nonparametric and time-varying directed information graph (TV-DIG) framework to estimate the evolving causal structure in time series networks, thereby addressing the limitations of traditional econometric models in capturing high-dimensional, nonlinear, and time-varying interconnections among series.

Causal Inference

On Identifiability of Conditional Causal Effects

no code implementations19 Jun 2023 Yaroslav Kivva, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

It extends the results of [Lee et al., 2019, Kivva et al., 2022] on general identifiability (gID) which studied the problem for unconditional causal effects and Shpitser and Pearl [2006b] on identifiability of conditional causal effects given merely the observational distribution $P(\mathbf{V})$ as our algorithm generalizes the algorithms proposed in [Kivva et al., 2022] and [Shpitser and Pearl, 2006b].

Causal Bandits without Graph Learning

1 code implementation26 Jan 2023 Mikhail Konobeev, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

We study the causal bandit problem when the causal graph is unknown and develop an efficient algorithm for finding the parent node of the reward node using atomic interventions.

Graph Learning

Novel Ordering-based Approaches for Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Unobserved Variables

no code implementations14 Aug 2022 Ehsan Mokhtarian, Mohammadsadegh Khorasani, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

We propose ordering-based approaches for learning the maximal ancestral graph (MAG) of a structural equation model (SEM) up to its Markov equivalence class (MEC) in the presence of unobserved variables.

Revisiting the General Identifiability Problem

no code implementations2 Jun 2022 Yaroslav Kivva, Ehsan Mokhtarian, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

A nice property of this new algorithm is that it establishes a connection between general identifiability and classical identifiability by Pearl [1995] through decomposing the general identifiability problem into a series of classical identifiability sub-problems.

Causal Inference

Experimental Design for Causal Effect Identification

no code implementations4 May 2022 Sina Akbari, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

When such an effect is not identifiable, it is necessary to perform a collection of often costly interventions in the system to learn the causal effect.

Experimental Design

Causal Effect Identification with Context-specific Independence Relations of Control Variables

1 code implementation22 Oct 2021 Ehsan Mokhtarian, Fateme Jamshidi, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

We study the problem of causal effect identification from observational distribution given the causal graph and some context-specific independence (CSI) relations.

Non-cooperative Multi-agent Systems with Exploring Agents

no code implementations25 May 2020 Jalal Etesami, Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

This leads to a set of coupled Bellman equations that describes the behavior of the agents.

Nonparametric Hawkes Processes: Online Estimation and Generalization Bounds

no code implementations25 Jan 2018 Yingxiang Yang, Jalal Etesami, Niao He, Negar Kiyavash

In this paper, we design a nonparametric online algorithm for estimating the triggering functions of multivariate Hawkes processes.

Generalization Bounds

Online Learning for Multivariate Hawkes Processes

no code implementations NeurIPS 2017 Yingxiang Yang, Jalal Etesami, Niao He, Negar Kiyavash

We develop a nonparametric and online learning algorithm that estimates the triggering functions of a multivariate Hawkes process (MHP).

A New Measure of Conditional Dependence

no code implementations31 Mar 2017 Jalal Etesami, Kun Zhang, Negar Kiyavash

Measuring conditional dependencies among the variables of a network is of great interest to many disciplines.

Learning Vector Autoregressive Models with Latent Processes

no code implementations27 Feb 2017 Saber Salehkaleybar, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash, Kun Zhang

We show that the support of transition matrix among the observed processes and lengths of all latent paths between any two observed processes can be identified successfully under some conditions on the VAR model.

Identifying Nonlinear 1-Step Causal Influences in Presence of Latent Variables

no code implementations23 Jan 2017 Saber Salehkaleybar, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

We propose an approach for learning the causal structure in stochastic dynamical systems with a $1$-step functional dependency in the presence of latent variables.

regression

Learning Network of Multivariate Hawkes Processes: A Time Series Approach

no code implementations14 Mar 2016 Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash, Kun Zhang, Kushagra Singhal

This paper studies the problem of recovering the causal structure in network of multivariate linear Hawkes processes.

Time Series Time Series Analysis

Efficient Neighborhood Selection for Gaussian Graphical Models

no code implementations22 Sep 2015 Yingxiang Yang, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

This paper addresses the problem of neighborhood selection for Gaussian graphical models.

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