Causality and Machine Learning

1월 28, 2020 | Amit Sharma

Consider a person who applies for a loan with a financial company, but their application is rejected by a machine learning algorithm used to determine who receives a loan from the company. How would you explain the decision made by…

2월 1, 2019 | Adith Swaminathan 그리고 Emre Kiciman

Causal inference studies the relationship between causes and effects. For example, one kind of question that causal inference can answer is the “What-happens-if …” question. What happens if I take a specific medication? What happens if I raise the price…

8월 21, 2018 | Amit Sharma 그리고 Emre Kiciman

For decades, causal inference methods have found wide applicability in the social and biomedical sciences. As computing systems start intervening in our work and daily lives, questions of cause-and-effect are gaining importance in computer science as well. To enable widespread…