no code implementations • 27 Jun 2019 • Sander Beckers, Frederick Eberhardt, Joseph Y. Halpern
Abstract descriptions can provide the basis for interventions on the system and explanation of observed phenomena at a level of granularity that is coarser than the most fundamental account of the system.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2019 • Zhalama, Jiji Zhang, Frederick Eberhardt, Wolfgang Mayer, Mark Junjie Li
In recent years the possibility of relaxing the so-called Faithfulness assumption in automated causal discovery has been investigated.
1 code implementation • 8 Apr 2018 • Krzysztof Chalupka, Pietro Perona, Frederick Eberhardt
The test is based on the idea that when $P(X \mid Y, Z) = P(X \mid Y)$, $Z$ is not useful as a feature to predict $X$, as long as $Y$ is also a regressor.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2016 • Krzysztof Chalupka, Frederick Eberhardt, Pietro Perona
We propose a method to classify the causal relationship between two discrete variables given only the joint distribution of the variables, acknowledging that the method is subject to an inherent baseline error.
no code implementations • 30 May 2016 • Krzysztof Chalupka, Tobias Bischoff, Pietro Perona, Frederick Eberhardt
We show that the climate phenomena of El Nino and La Nina arise naturally as states of macro-variables when our recent causal feature learning framework (Chalupka 2015, Chalupka 2016) is applied to micro-level measures of zonal wind (ZW) and sea surface temperatures (SST) taken over the equatorial band of the Pacific Ocean.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2016 • Antti Hyttinen, Sergey Plis, Matti Järvisalo, Frederick Eberhardt, David Danks
This paper focuses on causal structure estimation from time series data in which measurements are obtained at a coarser timescale than the causal timescale of the underlying system.
no code implementations • 25 Dec 2015 • Krzysztof Chalupka, Pietro Perona, Frederick Eberhardt
We formalize the connection between micro- and macro-variables in such situations and provide a coherent framework describing causal relations at multiple levels of analysis.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2014 • Krzysztof Chalupka, Pietro Perona, Frederick Eberhardt
We provide a rigorous definition of the visual cause of a behavior that is broadly applicable to the visually driven behavior in humans, animals, neurons, robots and other perceiving systems.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2013 • Antti Hyttinen, Patrik O. Hoyer, Frederick Eberhardt, Matti Jarvisalo
We present a very general approach to learning the structure of causal models based on d-separation constraints, obtained from any given set of overlapping passive observational or experimental data sets.