Workshop
Scaling Up Intervention Models
Jiaqi Zhang · Jialin Yu · Niki Kilbertus · Cheng Zhang · Caroline Uhler · Ricardo Silva
West Meeting Room 223-224
Fri 18 Jul, 9 a.m. PDT
Machine learning and AI have long been concerned about modeling how an agent can change the world around it. However, intervening in the physical world takes effort, leading to sparsity of evidence and the corresponding gaps of credibility when an agent considers carrying out previously unseen actions. Making the most of sparse data within a combinatorial explosion of possible actions, dose levels, and waiting times requires careful thinking, akin to efforts for introducing more compositionality principles into machine learning (Andreas, 2019). The goal of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art ideas on how to predict effects of novel interventions and distribution shifts by exploiting original ways of composing evidence from multiple data-generation regimes.
Schedule
Fri 9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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Fri 9:10 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
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Text-based Causal Experiments via LLMs
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Invited Talk -- Amir Feder, Columbia University & Google
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Fri 9:40 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
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Generative AI and Virtual Cells for Drug Response Modeling
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Invited talk - Charlotte Bunne, EPFL
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Fri 10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
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From Causal Models to AI Safety Guarantees
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Invited Talk -- Alexis Bellot, DeepMind
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Fri 10:40 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
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Can Large Language Models Help Experimental Design for Causal Discovery?
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Oral Talk -- Yongqiang Chen, MBZUAI/CMU
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Fri 10:55 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
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CausalPFN: Amortized Causal Effect Estimation via In-Context Learning.
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Oral Talk -- Vahid Balazadeh, University of Toronto & Vector Ins
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Fri 11:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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Fri 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
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Poster Session
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Fri 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Lunch Break
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Fri 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Scaling data and models: compositional generalisation and active learning in the age of foundation models
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Invited Talk -- Jason Hartford ,University of Manchester & Vale
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Fri 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Learning Causality in Open-ended World by Active Intervention
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Invited Talk -- Mengyue Yang ,University of Bristol
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Fri 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Causal representation learning and causal generative AI
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Invited Talk -- Kun Zhang ,MBZUAI/CMU
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Fri 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Amortized Active Generation of Pareto Sets.
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Oral Talk -- Edwin V. Bonilla ,CSIRO’s Data61
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Fri 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Competing Event Models: Next Event Prediction Under Interventions.
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Oral Talk -- Yoav Wald, New York University
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Fri 3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
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Coffee Break
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Fri 3:50 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Poster Session
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Fri 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Panel discussion
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Fri 5:00 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
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A Meta-Learning Approach to Causal Inference ( Poster ) > link | Dragos Cristian Manta · Philippe Brouillard · Dhanya Sridhar 🔗 |
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Competing Event Models: Next Event Prediction Under Interventions ( Oral ) > link | Yoav Wald · Xiang Gao · Rajesh Ranganath 🔗 |
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Learning to Adapt: Self-Supervised Representations for Robust Contextual Bandits ( Poster ) > link | Janos Horvath 🔗 |
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TrialCalibre: A Fully Automated Causal Engine for RCT Benchmarking and Observational Trial Calibration ( Poster ) > link | Amir Habibdoust Lafmajani · Xing Song 🔗 |
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Prompt Optimization with Logged Bandit Data ( Poster ) > link | Haruka Kiyohara · Daniel Cao · Yuta Saito · Thorsten Joachims 🔗 |
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Towards Causal Representation Learning with Observable Sources as Auxiliaries ( Poster ) > link | Kwonho Kim · Heejeong Nam · Inwoo Hwang · Sanghack Lee 🔗 |
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OOD Detection with Relative Angles ( Poster ) > link | Berker Demirel · Marco Fumero · Francesco Locatello 🔗 |
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Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Flow Matching for Controllable Biological Sequence Design ( Poster ) > link | Tong Chen · Yinuo Zhang · Sophia Tang · Pranam Chatterjee, PhD 🔗 |
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Steering LLM Reasoning Through Bias-Only Adaptation ( Poster ) > link | Viacheslav Sinii · Alexey Gorbatovski · Artem Cherepanov · Boris Shaposhnikov · Nikita Balagansky · Daniil Gavrilov 🔗 |
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Bidding for Influence: Auction-Driven Diffusion Image Generation ( Poster ) > link | Lillian Sun · Henry Huang · Fucheng Zhu · Giannis Daras · Constantinos Daskalakis 🔗 |
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SOAPIA: Siamese-Guided Generation of Off Target-Avoiding Protein Interactions with High Target Affinity ( Poster ) > link | Sophia Vincoff · Oscar Davis · Ismail Ceylan · Alexander Tong · Joey Bose · Pranam Chatterjee, PhD 🔗 |
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Deep RL Inventory Management with Supply and Capacity Risk Awareness ( Poster ) > link | Defeng Liu · Carson Eisenach 🔗 |
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Amortized Active Generation of Pareto Sets ( Oral ) > link | Daniel Steinberg · Asiri Wijesinghe · Rafael Oliveira · Piotr Koniusz · Cheng Soon Ong · Edwin V. Bonilla 🔗 |
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Markov-Boundary Consistent Feature Attribution ( Poster ) > link | Mateusz Gajewski · Mateusz Olko · Mikołaj Morzy · Piotr Sankowski 🔗 |
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Quantized Disentanglement: A Practical Approach ( Poster ) > link | Vitória Barin-Pacela · Kartik Ahuja · Simon Lacoste-Julien · Pascal Vincent 🔗 |
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Thompson Sampling in Function Spaces via Neural Operators ( Poster ) > link | Rafael Oliveira · Xuesong Wang · Kian Ming Chai · Edwin V. Bonilla 🔗 |
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Equipping Graphical Models with Interventions and Interactions Simultaneously ( Poster ) > link | James Enouen · Angela Zhou · Yan Liu 🔗 |
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An Object-Attribute Decoupled Approach for Learning Disentangled Representation for Image and Video Analysis ( Poster ) > link | Sanket Sanjaykumar Gandhi · Atul · Samanyu Mahajan · Rushil Gupta · Vishal Sharma · Arnab Mondal · Rohan Paul · Parag Singla 🔗 |
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MorphGen: Controllable and Morphologically Plausible Generative Cell-Imaging ( Poster ) > link | Berker Demirel · Marco Fumero · Theofanis Karaletsos · Francesco Locatello 🔗 |
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The Third Pillar of Causal Analysis? A Measurement Perspective on Causal Representations ( Poster ) > link | Dingling Yao · Shimeng Huang · Riccardo Cadei · Kun Zhang · Francesco Locatello 🔗 |
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Estimating Interventional Distributions with Uncertain Causal Graphs through Meta-Learning ( Poster ) > link | Anish Dhir · Cristiana Diaconu · Valentinian Lungu · James Requeima · Richard E Turner · Mark van der Wilk 🔗 |
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scDataset: Scalable Data Loading for Deep Learning on Large-Scale Single-Cell Omics ( Poster ) > link | Davide DAscenzo · Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano 🔗 |
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Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation ( Poster ) > link | Jake Robertson · Arik Reuter · Siyuan Guo · Noah Hollmann · Frank Hutter · Bernhard Schölkopf 🔗 |
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Estimating Causal Effects in Gaussian Linear SCMs with Finite Data ( Poster ) > link | Aurghya Maiti · Prateek Jain 🔗 |
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Estimating treatment effects in networks using domain adversarial learning ( Poster ) > link | Daan Caljon · Jente Van Belle · Wouter Verbeke 🔗 |
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Enhancing Math Reasoning in Small-sized LLMs via Preview Difficulty-Aware Intervention ( Poster ) > link | xinhan di · JoyJiaoW 🔗 |
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LLMs Struggle to Perform Counterfactual Reasoning with Parametric Knowledge ( Poster ) > link | Khurram Yamin · Gaurav Ghosal · Bryan Wilder 🔗 |
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Noise Tolerance of Distributionally Robust Learning ( Poster ) > link | Ramzi Dakhmouche · Ivan Lunati · Hossein Gorji 🔗 |
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Network System Forecasting Despite Topology Perturbation ( Poster ) > link | Ramzi Dakhmouche · Ivan Lunati · Hossein Gorji 🔗 |
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Towards Robust Causal Effect Identification beyond Markov Equivalence ( Poster ) > link | Kai Teh · Kayvan Sadeghi · Terry Soo 🔗 |
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Keep the Alignment, Skip the Overhead: Lightweight Instruction Alignment for Continually Trained LLMs ( Poster ) > link | Ishan Jindal · Badrinath chandana · Pranjal Bharti · Lakkidi Vinay · SACHIN SHARMA 🔗 |
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Robust estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects in randomized trials leveraging external data ( Poster ) > link | Rickard K.A. Karlsson · Piersilvio De Bartolomeis · Issa Dahabreh · Jesse H. Krijthe 🔗 |
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Learning Treatment Representations for Downstream Instrumental Variable Regression ( Poster ) > link | Shiangyi Lin · Hui Lan · Vasilis Syrgkanis 🔗 |
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Can Large Language Models Help Experimental Design for Causal Discovery? ( Oral ) > link | Junyi Li · Yongqiang Chen · Chenxi Liu · Qianyi Cai · Tongliang Liu · Bo Han · Kun Zhang · Hui Xiong 🔗 |
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Discovering Hierarchical Latent Capabilities of Language Models via Causal Representation Learning ( Poster ) > link | Jikai Jin · Vasilis Syrgkanis · Sham Kakade · Hanlin Zhang 🔗 |
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Off-Policy Learning for Diversity-aware Candidate Retrieval in Two-stage Decisions ( Poster ) > link | Haruka Kiyohara · Rayhan Khanna · Thorsten Joachims 🔗 |
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CausalPFN: Amortized Causal Effect Estimation via In-Context Learning ( Oral ) > link | Vahid Balazadeh · Hamidreza Kamkari · Valentin Thomas · Benson Li · Junwei Ma · Jesse Cresswell · Rahul G. Krishnan 🔗 |
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Multi-Objective-Guided Generative Design of mRNA with Therapeutic Properties ( Poster ) > link | Sawan Patel · Sophia Tang · Yinuo Zhang · Pranam Chatterjee, PhD · Sherwood Yao 🔗 |
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Faithfulness and Intervention-Only Causal Discovery ( Poster ) > link | Bijan Mazaheri · Jiaqi Zhang · Caroline Uhler 🔗 |
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Failure Modes of LLMs for Causal Reasoning on Narratives ( Poster ) > link | Khurram Yamin · Shantanu Gupta · Gaurav Ghosal · Zachary Lipton · Bryan Wilder 🔗 |