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Jiayao Zhang

5 accepted papers

2024

Event Causality Identification with Synthetic Control

EMNLP 2024main

Event causality identification (ECI), a process that extracts causal relations between events from text, is crucial for distinguishing causation from correlation. Traditional approaches to ECI have primarily utilized linguistic patterns and multi-hop relational inference, risking false causality ide…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causal Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspective

ACL 2023long

Detecting commonsense causal relations (causation) between events has long been an essential yet challenging task. Given that events are complicated, an event may have different causes under various contexts. Thus, exploiting context plays an essential role in detecting causal relations. Meanwhile,…

2023

FIFA: Making Fairness More Generalizable in Classifiers Trained on Imbalanced Data

ICLR 2023poster

Algorithmic fairness plays an important role in machine learning and imposing fairness constraints during learning is a common approach. However, many datasets are imbalanced in certain label classes (e.g. "healthy") and sensitive subgroups (e.g. "older patients"). Empirically, this imbalance leads…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2022

ROCK: Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causality

ICML 2022spotlight

Commonsense causality reasoning (CCR) aims at identifying plausible causes and effects in natural language descriptions that are deemed reasonable by an average person. Although being of great academic and practical interest, this problem is still shadowed by the lack of a well-posed theoretical fra…

2021

Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Locally Elastic Stochastic Differential Equations

NeurIPS 2021poster

Understanding the training dynamics of deep learning models is perhaps a necessary step toward demystifying the effectiveness of these models. In particular, how do training data from different classes gradually become separable in their feature spaces when training neural networks using stochastic…