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New research advances causal decision-making in machine learning

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This paper introduces advancements in structural causal bandits, a method that uses causal knowledge to guide exploration when reward mechanisms are unknown. The research extends this approach to scenarios with partially known causal structures, information from other environments, and counterfactual actions. Key contributions include graphical criteria for minimal intervention sets under Markov equivalence, algorithms for finding possibly-optimal intervention sets, and methods for deriving target reward bounds from source distributions using partial transportability. The work also formulates counterfactual structural causal bandits over actions supported by experimental capabilities, providing graphical characterizations for minimality and possible optimality to refine action spaces. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Min Woo Park, Sanghack Lee ·

    Generalizing Causal Decision-Making: Markov Equivalence, Transportability and Counterfactuals

    arXiv:2611.14066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structural causal bandits use causal knowledge to guide exploration when reward mechanisms are unknown. This paper extends the approach to partially known causal structure, information from other environments, and realizable counter…

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