no code implementations • 21 Nov 2024 • Nora Schneider, Lars Lorch, Niki Kilbertus, Bernhard Schölkopf, Andreas Krause
We consider the problem of predicting perturbation effects via causal models.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2024 • Alistair White, Anna Büttner, Maximilian Gelbrecht, Valentin Duruisseaux, Niki Kilbertus, Frank Hellmann, Niklas Boers
Neural differential equations offer a powerful approach for learning dynamics from data.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2024 • Stefan Feuerriegel, Dennis Frauen, Valentyn Melnychuk, Jonas Schweisthal, Konstantin Hess, Alicia Curth, Stefan Bauer, Niki Kilbertus, Isaac S. Kohane, Mihaela van der Schaar
Causal machine learning (ML) offers flexible, data-driven methods for predicting treatment outcomes including efficacy and toxicity, thereby supporting the assessment and safety of drugs.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2024 • Thomas Schwarz, Cecilia Casolo, Niki Kilbertus
The robustness of our method across various settings highlights its potential for broad applicability in personalized healthcare solutions.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2024 • Jonas Schweisthal, Dennis Frauen, Maresa Schröder, Konstantin Hess, Niki Kilbertus, Stefan Feuerriegel
Our contributions are three-fold: (1) We propose a novel approach for partial identification through a mapping of instruments to a discrete representation space so that we yield valid bounds on the CATE.
1 code implementation • 6 Jun 2024 • Birgit Kühbacher, Fernando Iglesias-Suarez, Niki Kilbertus, Veronika Eyring
Climate models play a critical role in understanding and projecting climate change.
no code implementations • 30 May 2024 • Elisabeth Ailer, Niclas Dern, Jason Hartford, Niki Kilbertus
Scientific hypotheses typically concern specific aspects of complex, imperfectly understood or entirely unknown mechanisms, such as the effect of gene expression levels on phenotypes or how microbial communities influence environmental health.
no code implementations • 9 May 2024 • Zhufeng Li, Sandeep S Cranganore, Nicholas Youngblut, Niki Kilbertus
Leveraging the vast genetic diversity within microbiomes offers unparalleled insights into complex phenotypes, yet the task of accurately predicting and understanding such traits from genomic data remains challenging.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2024 • Georg Manten, Cecilia Casolo, Emilio Ferrucci, Søren Wengel Mogensen, Cristopher Salvi, Niki Kilbertus
Inferring the causal structure underlying stochastic dynamical systems from observational data holds great promise in domains ranging from science and health to finance.
1 code implementation • 25 Nov 2023 • Luca Eyring, Dominik Klein, Théo Uscidda, Giovanni Palla, Niki Kilbertus, Zeynep Akata, Fabian Theis
We hence establish UOT-FM as a principled method for unpaired image translation.
1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2023 • Stéphane d'Ascoli, Sören Becker, Alexander Mathis, Philippe Schwaller, Niki Kilbertus
We introduce ODEFormer, the first transformer able to infer multidimensional ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems in symbolic form from the observation of a single solution trajectory.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2023 • Sören Becker, Michal Klein, Alexander Neitz, Giambattista Parascandolo, Niki Kilbertus
We develop a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence model that recovers scalar ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in symbolic form from irregularly sampled and noisy observations of a single solution trajectory.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Alistair White, Niki Kilbertus, Maximilian Gelbrecht, Niklas Boers
Many successful methods to learn dynamical systems from data have recently been introduced.
1 code implementation • 11 Feb 2023 • Elisabeth Ailer, Jason Hartford, Niki Kilbertus
Instrumental variable (IV) methods are used to estimate causal effects in settings with unobserved confounding, where we cannot directly experiment on the treatment variable.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2022 • Sören Becker, Michal Klein, Alexander Neitz, Giambattista Parascandolo, Niki Kilbertus
Natural laws are often described through differential equations yet finding a differential equation that describes the governing law underlying observed data is a challenging and still mostly manual task.
1 code implementation • 26 Oct 2022 • Hananeh Aliee, Till Richter, Mikhail Solonin, Ignacio Ibarra, Fabian Theis, Niki Kilbertus
Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) have proven successful in learning dynamical systems in terms of accurately recovering the observed trajectories.
2 code implementations • 20 Jul 2022 • Francesco Quinzan, Cecilia Casolo, Krikamol Muandet, Yucen Luo, Niki Kilbertus
Notions of counterfactual invariance (CI) have proven essential for predictors that are fair, robust, and generalizable in the real world.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2022 • Jiri Hron, Karl Krauth, Michael I. Jordan, Niki Kilbertus, Sarah Dean
To this end, we propose tools for numerically finding equilibria in exposure games, and illustrate results of an audit on the MovieLens and LastFM datasets.
no code implementations • 18 May 2022 • Isabel Chien, Nina Deliu, Richard E. Turner, Adrian Weller, Sofia S. Villar, Niki Kilbertus
While interest in the application of machine learning to improve healthcare has grown tremendously in recent years, a number of barriers prevent deployment in medical practice.
1 code implementation • 15 May 2022 • Shimeng Huang, Elisabeth Ailer, Niki Kilbertus, Niklas Pfister
We propose KernelBiome, a kernel-based nonparametric regression and classification framework for compositional data.
1 code implementation • 28 Apr 2022 • Leon Hetzel, Simon Böhm, Niki Kilbertus, Stephan Günnemann, Mohammad Lotfollahi, Fabian Theis
Single-cell transcriptomics enabled the study of cellular heterogeneity in response to perturbations at the resolution of individual cells.
1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2022 • Kirtan Padh, Jakob Zeitler, David Watson, Matt Kusner, Ricardo Silva, Niki Kilbertus
Causal effect estimation is important for many tasks in the natural and social sciences.
no code implementations • 28 Jun 2021 • Jiri Hron, Karl Krauth, Michael I. Jordan, Niki Kilbertus
Thanks to their scalability, two-stage recommenders are used by many of today's largest online platforms, including YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2021 • Hananeh Aliee, Fabian J. Theis, Niki Kilbertus
Spurred by tremendous success in pattern matching and prediction tasks, researchers increasingly resort to machine learning to aid original scientific discovery.
2 code implementations • 21 Jun 2021 • Elisabeth Ailer, Christian L. Müller, Niki Kilbertus
Many scientific datasets are compositional in nature.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2021 • Niki Kilbertus
Revisiting this limitation from a causal viewpoint we develop a more versatile conceptual framework, causal fairness criteria, and first algorithms to achieve them.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2020 • Jiri Hron, Karl Krauth, Michael. I. Jordan, Niki Kilbertus
In this work, we focus on the complementary issue of exploration.
2 code implementations • 14 Jun 2020 • Frederik Träuble, Elliot Creager, Niki Kilbertus, Francesco Locatello, Andrea Dittadi, Anirudh Goyal, Bernhard Schölkopf, Stefan Bauer
The focus of disentanglement approaches has been on identifying independent factors of variation in data.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Niki Kilbertus, Matt J. Kusner, Ricardo Silva
Causal treatment effect estimation is a key problem that arises in a variety of real-world settings, from personalized medicine to governmental policy making.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2019 • Niki Kilbertus, Philip J. Ball, Matt J. Kusner, Adrian Weller, Ricardo Silva
We demonstrate our new sensitivity analysis tools in real-world fairness scenarios to assess the bias arising from confounding.
2 code implementations • 18 Apr 2019 • Timothy D. Gebhard, Niki Kilbertus, Ian Harry, Bernhard Schölkopf
In the last few years, machine learning techniques, in particular convolutional neural networks, have been investigated as a method to replace or complement traditional matched filtering techniques that are used to detect the gravitational-wave signature of merging black holes.
1 code implementation • 8 Feb 2019 • Niki Kilbertus, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Bernhard Schölkopf, Krikamol Muandet, Isabel Valera
In this paper, we show that in this selective labels setting, learning a predictor directly only from available labeled data is suboptimal in terms of both fairness and utility.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2018 • Niki Kilbertus, Giambattista Parascandolo, Bernhard Schölkopf
Anti-causal models are used to drive this search, but a causal model is required for validation.
1 code implementation • ICML 2018 • Niki Kilbertus, Adrià Gascón, Matt J. Kusner, Michael Veale, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller
Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race.
1 code implementation • ICML 2018 • Giambattista Parascandolo, Niki Kilbertus, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Bernhard Schölkopf
The approach is unsupervised and based on a set of experts that compete for data generated by the mechanisms, driving specialization.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2017 • Niki Kilbertus, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Giambattista Parascandolo, Moritz Hardt, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf
Going beyond observational criteria, we frame the problem of discrimination based on protected attributes in the language of causal reasoning.