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Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Counterfactual-Based Data Augmentation
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms usually require a substantial amo...
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Assaying Large-scale Testing Models to Interpret Covid-19 Case Numbers. A Cross-country Study
Large-scale testing is considered key to assessing the state of the curr...
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PanCast: Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there have been burgeoning efforts...
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On the Transfer of Disentangled Representations in Realistic Settings
Learning meaningful representations that disentangle the underlying stru...
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A Sober Look at the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations and their Evaluation
The idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representation...
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Function Contrastive Learning of Transferable Representations
Few-shot-learning seeks to find models that are capable of fast-adaptati...
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On the Fairness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse
While many recent works have studied the problem of algorithmic fairness...
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Physically constrained causal noise models for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets
The detection of exoplanets in high-contrast imaging (HCI) data hinges o...
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CausalWorld: A Robotic Manipulation Benchmark for Causal Structure and Transfer Learning
Despite recent successes of reinforcement learning (RL), it remains a ch...
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A survey of algorithmic recourse: definitions, formulations, solutions, and prospects
Machine learning is increasingly used to inform decision-making in sensi...
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Causal Curiosity: RL Agents Discovering Self-supervised Experiments for Causal Representation Learning
Humans show an innate ability to learn the regularities of the world thr...
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Learning explanations that are hard to vary
In this paper, we investigate the principle that `good explanations are ...
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Real-time Prediction of COVID-19 related Mortality using Electronic Health Records
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging respiratory disease c...
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Learning Dynamical Systems using Local Stability Priors
A coupled computational approach to simultaneously learn a vector field ...
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TriFinger: An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity
Dexterous object manipulation remains an open problem in robotics, despi...
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Geometrically Enriched Latent Spaces
A common assumption in generative models is that the generator immerses ...
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A Commentary on the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations
The goal of the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is...
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Causal analysis of Covid-19 spread in Germany
In this work, we study the causal relations among German regions in term...
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Bloom Origami Assays: Practical Group Testing
We study the problem usually referred to as group testing in the context...
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S2RMs: Spatially Structured Recurrent Modules
Capturing the structure of a data-generating process by means of appropr...
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Causal Feature Selection via Orthogonal Search
The problem of inferring the direct causal parents of a response variabl...
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Relative gradient optimization of the Jacobian term in unsupervised deep learning
Learning expressive probabilistic models correctly describing the data i...
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Is Independence all you need? On the Generalization of Representations Learned from Correlated Data
Despite impressive progress in the last decade, it still remains an open...
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Structural Autoencoders Improve Representations for Generation and Transfer
We study the problem of structuring a learned representation to signific...
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Kernel Distributionally Robust Optimization
This paper is an in-depth investigation of using kernel methods to immun...
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Algorithmic recourse under imperfect causal knowledge: a probabilistic approach
Recent work has discussed the limitations of counterfactual explanations...
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Learning to Play Table Tennis From Scratch using Muscular Robots
Dynamic tasks like table tennis are relatively easy to learn for humans ...
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Automatic Policy Synthesis to Improve the Safety of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Learning controllers merely based on a performance metric has been prove...
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Learning Kernel Tests Without Data Splitting
Modern large-scale kernel-based tests such as maximum mean discrepancy (...
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for causal feature selection in time series with latent common causes
We study the identification of direct and indirect causes on time series...
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Simpson's paradox in Covid-19 case fatality rates: a mediation analysis of age-related causal effects
We point out an example of Simpson's paradox in COVID-19 case fatality r...
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Crackovid: Optimizing Group Testing
We study the problem usually referred to as group testing in the context...
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Towards causal generative scene models via competition of experts
Learning how to model complex scenes in a modular way with recombinable ...
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A Spatiotemporal Epidemic Model to Quantify the Effects of Contact Tracing, Testing, and Containment
We introduce a novel modeling framework for studying epidemics that is s...
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A theory of independent mechanisms for extrapolation in generative models
Deep generative models reproduce complex empirical data but cannot extra...
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Worst-Case Risk Quantification under Distributional Ambiguity using Kernel Mean Embedding in Moment Problem
In order to anticipate rare and impactful events, we propose to quantify...
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SLEIPNIR: Deterministic and Provably Accurate Feature Expansion for Gaussian Process Regression with Derivatives
Gaussian processes are an important regression tool with excellent analy...
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MYND: Unsupervised Evaluation of Novel BCI Control Strategies on Consumer Hardware
Neurophysiological studies are typically conducted in laboratories with ...
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Testing Goodness of Fit of Conditional Density Models with Kernels
We propose two nonparametric statistical tests of goodness of fit for co...
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Algorithmic Recourse: from Counterfactual Explanations to Interventions
As machine learning is increasingly used to inform consequential decisio...
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Weakly-Supervised Disentanglement Without Compromises
Intelligent agents should be able to learn useful representations by obs...
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A Kernel Mean Embedding Approach to Reducing Conservativeness in Stochastic Programming and Control
We apply kernel mean embedding methods to sample-based stochastic optimi...
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A New Distribution-Free Concept for Representing, Comparing, and Propagating Uncertainty in Dynamical Systems with Kernel Probabilistic Programming
This work presents the concept of kernel mean embedding and kernel proba...
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Causality for Machine Learning
Graphical causal inference as pioneered by Judea Pearl arose from resear...
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Kernel-Guided Training of Implicit Generative Models with Stability Guarantees
Modern implicit generative models such as generative adversarial network...
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Kernel Stein Tests for Multiple Model Comparison
We address the problem of non-parametric multiple model comparison: give...
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Optimal experimental design via Bayesian optimization: active causal structure learning for Gaussian process networks
We study the problem of causal discovery through targeted interventions....
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Recurrent Independent Mechanisms
Learning modular structures which reflect the dynamics of the environmen...
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Real Time Trajectory Prediction Using Deep Conditional Generative Models
Data driven methods for time series forecasting that quantify uncertaint...
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Reliable Real Time Ball Tracking for Robot Table Tennis
Robot table tennis systems require a vision system that can track the ba...
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