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Yashas Annadani

9 accepted papers

2025

Preference-Guided Diffusion for Multi-Objective Offline Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Offline multi-objective optimization aims to identify Pareto-optimal solutions given a dataset of designs and their objective values. In this work, we propose a preference-guided diffusion model that generates Pareto-optimal designs by leveraging a classifier-based guidance mechanism. Our guidance c…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Amortized Active Causal Induction with Deep Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

We present Causal Amortized Active Structure Learning (CAASL), an active intervention design policy that can select interventions that are adaptive, real-time and that does not require access to the likelihood. This policy, an amortized network based on the transformer, is trained with reinforcement…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Challenges and Considerations in the Evaluation of Bayesian Causal Discovery

ICML 2024poster

Representing uncertainty in causal discovery is a crucial component for experimental design, and more broadly, for safe and reliable causal decision making. Bayesian Causal Discovery (BCD) offers a principled approach to encapsulating this uncertainty. Unlike non-Bayesian causal discovery, which rel…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

BayesDAG: Gradient-Based Posterior Inference for Causal Discovery

NeurIPS 2023poster

Bayesian causal discovery aims to infer the posterior distribution over causal models from observed data, quantifying epistemic uncertainty and benefiting downstream tasks. However, computational challenges arise due to joint inference over combinatorial space of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and n…

2023

Differentiable Multi-Target Causal Bayesian Experimental Design

ICML 2023poster

We introduce a gradient-based approach for the problem of Bayesian optimal experimental design to learn causal models in a batch setting --- a critical component for causal discovery from finite data where interventions can be costly or risky. Existing methods rely on greedy approximations to constr…

2023

Structure by Architecture: Structured Representations without Regularization

ICLR 2023poster

We study the problem of self-supervised structured representation learning using autoencoders for downstream tasks such as generative modeling. Unlike most methods which rely on matching an arbitrary, relatively unstructured, prior distribution for sampling, we propose a sampling technique that reli…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Trust Your $\nabla$: Gradient-based Intervention Targeting for Causal Discovery

NeurIPS 2023poster

Inferring causal structure from data is a challenging task of fundamental importance in science. Often, observational data alone is not enough to uniquely identify a system’s causal structure. The use of interventional data can address this issue, however, acquiring these samples typically demands a…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2022

Interventions, Where and How? Experimental Design for Causal Models at Scale

NeurIPS 2022accept

Causal discovery from observational and interventional data is challenging due to limited data and non-identifiability which introduces uncertainties in estimating the underlying structural causal model (SCM). Incorporating these uncertainties and selecting optimal experiments (interventions) to per…