Schedule
9:00-10:20 - Session 1
9:00 |
Causal Discovery with Latent Variables: the Measurement Problem Richard Scheines, Carnegie Mellon University; (invited talk) [Slides] |
9:50 |
Causal Inference for Recommendation Dawen Liang, Laurent Charlin and David Blei [Slides] |
10:20-10:50 - Coffee
10:50-12:20 - Session 2
10:50 |
Causal Inference by Minimizing the Dual Norm of Bias: Kernel Matching & Weighting Estimators for Causal Effects Nathan Kallus [Slides] |
11:20 |
Separating Sparse Signals from Correlated Noise in Binary Classification Stephan Mandt, Florian Wenzel, Shinichi Nakajima, Christoph Lippert and Marius Kloft [Slides] |
11:50 |
Marginal Causal Consistency in Constraint-based Causal Learning Anna Roumpelaki, Giorgos Borboudakis, Sofia Triantafillou and Ioannis Tsamardinos [Slides] |
12:20-2:10 - Lunch
2:10-3:00 - Session 3
2:10 |
Discovering Dynamical Kinds Benjamin Jantzen, Virginia Tech; (invited talk) [Slides] |
3:00-4:00 - Poster Session with Coffee
1. |
Score Based vs Constraint Based Causal Learning in the Presence of Confounders Sofia Triantafillou and Ioannis Tsamardinos [Poster] |
2. |
Pairwise Cluster Comparison for Learning Latent Variable Models Nuaman Asbeh and Boaz Lerner [Poster] |
3. |
Split-door Criterion for Causal Identification:
Natural Experiments with Testable Assumptions Amit Sharma, Jake Hofman and Duncan Watts [Poster] |
4. |
Validating Causal Models Dustin Tran, Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Susan Athey and David M. Blei [Poster] |
5. | In addition all the contributed talks will have posters and we have invited some papers relevant to causality from the main conference to join the poster session. |
4:00-5:30 - Session 4: Open Problems
short presentations of Open Problems, followed by a discussion with speakers and participants | |
1. | Joint Probabilistic Inference for Causal Structure Discovery Dhanya Sridhar and Lise Getoor [Slides] |
2. | Stability of Causal Inference Piyush Srivastava and Leonard Schulman [Slides] |
3. | From the Probabilistic Marginal to the Causal Marginal Problem Dominik Janzing [Slides] |
4. | --- we unfortunately had one cancellation --- due to the difficulty of getting a US visa in time |