28 accepted papers
In domains such as healthcare and marketing, learning optimal individualized dosing policies to maximize utility is crucial, yet high experimental costs impose strict budget constraints, necessitating efficient active policy learning. Existing active learning methods in causal inference primarily fo…
Accurate estimation of time-varying treatment effects is crucial for optimizing interventions in personalized medicine. However, observational data often contains complex confounding bias and temporal complexities, making counterfactual estimation challenging. We propose Counterfactual Estimation vi
Zero-shot classifier expansion aims to adapt existing model to new, unseen classes. It utilizes class attributes or textual descriptions to learn a mapping from the semantic space to the classifier
Fault Diagnosis (FD) on sequential data suffers from irregular sampling (with missing values), limited training data, and varying underlying environments. In response, this paper proposes FD by adjoint learning in continuous-time model space. Model-Space Learning employs well-fitted models that capt
Zero-shot classifier expansion aims to recognize unseen classes by learning a shared mechanism to map semantics of all classes to classifier weights without access to images. However, existing methods rely on a shared mapping, which is difficult to classify in scenarios containing a mixture of disti…
Multivariate time series classification (MTSC) has broad applications in numerous domains. Existing MTSC methods typically focus on either temporal dynamics or variable interactions of the data, often overlooking cross-scale couplings among different variables. To bridge this gap, we propose Scale-V
Learning instantaneous and time-lagged causal relationships from time-series data is essential for uncovering fine-grained, temporally-aware interactions. Although this problem has been formulated as a continuous optimization task amenable to modern machine learning methods, existing approaches larg…
Identifying optimal intervention sequences from offline data to guide temporal systems toward target outcomes is a critical challenge with profound implications for fields like personalized medicine. While existing methods are mostly evaluated in offline settings, practical applications demand onlin…
Causal discovery aims to infer a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) from observational data to represent causal relationships among variables. Traditional combinatorial methods search DAG spaces to identify optimal structures, while recent advances in continuous optimization improve this search process. H…
Differentiable structure learning of causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) is an emerging field in causal discovery, leveraging powerful neural learners. However, the incorporation of ancestral constraints, essential for representing abstract prior causal knowledge, remains an open research challeng…
Efficient anomaly detection of irregular sequences, especially those characterized by non-uniform sampling from discontinuous operations or unreliable sensors, presents challenges across various fields. In response, this paper introduces irregular-sequence classification in ''Ct-Echo Model Space''.…
In the medical field, treatment sequences significantly influence future outcomes through complex temporal interactions. Therefore, highlighting the role of temporal treatments within the model is crucial for accurate counterfactual estimation, which is often overlooked in current methods. To addres
Zero-shot learning has shown significant potential for creating cost-effective and flexible systems to expand classifiers to new categories. However, existing methods still rely on manually created attributes designed by domain experts. Motivated by the widespread success of large language models (L
Fault Diagnosis (FD) in time-varying data presents considerations such as limited training data, intra- and inter-dimensional correlations, and constraints of training time. In response, this paper introduces FD in the Reservoir-Embedded-Directional Network (REDNet) model space. Model-oriented metho
Document-level event argument extraction is a crucial task that aims to extract arguments from the entire document, beyond sentence-level analysis. Prior classification-based models still fail to explicitly capture significant relationships and heavily relies on large-scale datasets. In this study,…
Anomaly detection in sequential signals is gaining prominence, especially with limited training data and timeliness requirements. Fully extracting the data-inside changing information, we propose a novel Wavelet-Enhanced Reservoir Computing framework (WE-Res). Our framework uses Discrete Wavelet Tra…
Fault Diagnosis (FD) in time-varying systems faces challenges like limited training data, varying environments, and timeliness. Building upon the framework of model-space learning (MSL), we introduce co-objective learning in Dynamic-Integration network (DynInt) model space as a solution for FD. MSL…
Learning the causality between variables, known as DAG structure learning, is critical yet challenging due to issues such as insufficient data and noise. While prior knowledge can improve the learning process and refine the DAG structure, incorporating prior knowledge is not without pitfalls. In par…
Analyzing inherent temporal dynamics is a critical pathway for time series classification, where Reservoir Computing (RC) exhibits effectiveness and high efficiency. However, typical RC considers recursive updates from adjacent states, struggling with long-term dependencies. In response, this paper…
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) provides detailed subterranean insights. Nevertheless, underground diagnosis via GPR is hindered by the fact that training data typically contain only normal samples, along with the complexity of GPR data’s wave-collection characteristics. This paper proposes subsurfac
A key challenge in personalized healthcare is identifying optimal intervention sequences to guide temporal systems toward target outcomes, a novel problem we formalize as counterfactual target achievement. In addressing this problem, directly adopting counterfactual estimation methods face compoundi…
Efficiently and effectively estimating counterfactuals over time is crucial for optimizing treatment strategies. We present the Adversarial Counterfactual Temporal Inference Network (ACTIN), a novel framework with dual modules to enhance counterfactual estimation. The balancing module employs a dist…
With the rapid growth of audio data, there's a pressing need for automatic audio classification. As a type of time-series data, audio exhibits waveform fluctuations in both the time and frequency domains that evolve over time, with similar instances sharing consistent patterns. This study introduces…
Differentiable structure learning is a novel line of causal discovery research that transforms the combinatorial optimization of structural models into a continuous optimization problem. However, the field has lacked feasible methods to integrate partial order constraints, a critical prior informati…
Three-dimensional Ground Penetrating Radar (3D GPR) data offer comprehensive views of the subsurface, yet identifying and classifying underground anomalies from this data is challenging due to limitations like scarce training data and variable underground environments. In response, we introduce lear…
The Relation Extraction (RE) task aims to extract the relation between two entities in a sentence. As the performance of methods on RE task depends on datasets’ quantity and quality, in this paper, we propose to use the Large Language Model (LLM) to do data augmentation. Moreover, compared to tradit…
Theoretically, the Markov boundary (MB) is the optimal solution for feature selection. However, existing MB learning algorithms often fail to identify some critical features in real-world feature selection tasks, mainly because the strict assumptions of existing algorithms, on either data distributi…
We focus on estimating causal effects of continuous treatments (e.g., dosage in medicine), also known as dose-response function. Existing methods in causal inference for continuous treatments using neural networks are effective and to some extent reduce selection bias, which is introduced by non-ran…