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Dingling Yao

7 accepted papers

2026

The Perception–Physics Paradox: Probing Scientific Alignment with TC-Atlas

ICML 2026poster

While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) excel at predictive tasks on satellite imagery, their performance can arise from visual correlations rather than underlying structural invariants, making certain perception-based out-of-distribution accuracy a poor proxy for scientific utility. As a result, mode…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Scalable Mechanistic Neural Networks

ICLR 2025poster

We propose Scalable Mechanistic Neural Network (S-MNN), an enhanced neural network framework designed for scientific machine learning applications involving long temporal sequences. By reformulating the original Mechanistic Neural Network (MNN) (Pervez et al., 2024), we reduce the computational time…

2025

The third pillar of causal analysis? A measurement perspective on causal representations

NeurIPS 2025poster

Causal reasoning and discovery, two fundamental tasks of causal analysis, often face challenges in applications due to the complexity, noisiness, and high-dimensionality of real-world data. Despite recent progress in identifying latent causal structures using causal representation learning (CRL), wh…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Unifying Causal Representation Learning with the Invariance Principle

ICLR 2025poster

Causal representation learning (CRL) aims at recovering latent causal variables from high-dimensional observations to solve causal downstream tasks, such as predicting the effect of new interventions or more robust classification. A plethora of methods have been developed, each tackling carefully…

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2024

A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning

ICML 2024poster

Causal representation learning aims at identifying high-level causal variables from perceptual data. Most methods assume that all latent causal variables are captured in the high-dimensional observations. We instead consider a partially observed setting, in which each measurement only provides infor…

2024

Marrying Causal Representation Learning with Dynamical Systems for Science

NeurIPS 2024poster

Causal representation learning promises to extend causal models to hidden causal variables from raw entangled measurements. However, most progress has focused on proving identifiability results in different settings, and we are not aware of any successful real-world application. At the same time, th…

2024

Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability

ICLR 2024spotlight

We present a unified framework for studying the identifiability of representations learned from simultaneously observed views, such as different data modalities. We allow a partially observed setting in which each view constitutes a nonlinear mixture of a subset of underlying latent variables, which…