By Alex Molak
Causal Bandits Podcast with Alex Molak is here to help you learn about causality, causal AI and causal machine learning through the genius of others.
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Which models work best for causal discovery and double machine learning?
In this extra episode, we present 4 more conversations with the researchers presenting their work at the CLeaR 2024 conference in Los Angeles, California.
What you'll learn:
- Which causal discovery models perform best with their default hyperparameters?
- How to tune your double machine learning model?
- Does putting your paper on ArXiv early increase its chances of being accepted at a conference?
- How to deal with causal representation learning with multiple latent interventions?
Time codes:
00:24 Damian Machlanski - Hyperparameter Tuning for Causal Discovery
08:52 Oliver Schacht - Hyperparameter Tuning for DML
14:41 Yanai Elazar - Causal Effect of Early ArXiving on Paper Acceptance
18:53 Simon Bing - Identifying Linearly-Mixed Causal Representations from Multi-Node Interventions
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✅ About Causal Python with Alex Molak.
Welcome to my official YouTube channel, Causal Python, with Alex Molak. Dive into the fascinating world of Causal AI, unraveling the complexities of Causal Inference and Discovery with Python.
My content simplifies these intricate topics, making them accessible whether you’re starting or advancing your knowledge. Here, I explore the intersections of causality, AI, machine learning, optimization, and decision-making, all through Python’s versatile capabilities.
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Root cause analysis, model explanations, causal discovery.
Are we facing a missing benchmark problem?
Or not anymore?
In this special episode, we travel to Los Angeles to talk with researchers at the forefront of causal research, exploring their projects, key insights, and the challenges they face in their work.
Time codes:
0:15 - 02:40 Kevin Debeire
2:41 - 06:37 Yuchen Zhu
06:37 - 10:09 Konstantin Göbler
10:09 - 17:05 Urja Pawar
17:05 - 23:16 William Orchard
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*Causal Bandits at AAAI 2024 || Part 2*
In this special episode we interview researchers who presented their work at AAAI 2024 in Vancouver, Canada.
Time codes:
00:12 - 04:18 Kevin Xia (Columbia University) - Transportability
4:19 - 9:53 Patrick Altmeyer (Delft) - Explainability & black-box models
9:54 - 12:24 Lokesh Nagalapatti (IIT Bombay) - Continuous treatment effects
12:24 - 16:06 Golnoosh Farnadi (McGill University) - Causality & responsible AI
16:06 - 17:37 Markus Bläser (Saarland University) - Fast identification of causal parameters
17:37 - 22:37 Devendra Singh Dhami (TU/e) - The future of causal AI
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Causal Bandits at AAAI 2024 || Part 1
In this special episode we interview researchers who presented their work at AAAI 2024 in Vancouver, Canada and participants of our workshop on causality and large language models (LLMs)
Time codes:
00:00 Intro
00:20 Osman Ali Mian (CISPA) - Adaptive causal discovery for time series
04:35 Emily McMilin (Independent/Meta) - LLMs, causality & selection bias
07:36 Scott Mueller (UCLA) - Causality for EV incentives
12:41 Andrew Lampinen (Google DeepMind) - Causality from passive data
15:16 Ali Edalati (Huawei) - About Causal Parrots workshop
15:26 Adbelrahman Zayed (MILA) - About Causal Parrots workshop
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Meet The Godfather of Modern Causal Inference
His work has pretty literally changed the course of my life and I am honored and incredibly grateful we could meet for this great conversation in his home in Los Angeles
To anybody who knows something about modern causal inference, he needs no introduction.
He loves history, philosophy and music, and I believe it's fair to say that he's the godfather of modern causality.
Ladies & gentlemen, please welcome, professor Judea Pearl.
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About The Guest
Judea Pearl is a computer scientist, and a creator of the Structural Causal Model (SCM) framework for causal inference. In 2011, he has been awarded the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, for his pioneering works on Bayesian networks and graphical causal models and "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".
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Aleksander (Alex) Molak is an independent machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and a best-selling author in the area of causality.
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Can we say something about YOUR personal treatment effect?
The estimation of individual treatment effects is the Holy Grail of personalized medicine.
It's also extremely difficult.
Yet, Scott is not discouraged from studying this topic.
In fact, he quit a pretty successful business to study it.
In a series of papers, Scott describes how combining experimental and observational data can help us understand individual causal effects.
Although this sounds enigmatic to many, the intuition behind this mechanism is simpler than you might think.
In the episode we discuss:
🔹 What made Scott quit a successful business he founded and study causal inference?
🔹 How a false conviction about his own skills helped him learn? 🔹 What are individual treatment effects?
🔹 Can we really say something about individual treatment effects?
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About The Guest
Scott Mueller is a researcher and a PhD candidate in causal modeling at UCLA, supervised by Prof. Judea Pearl. He's a serial entrepreneur and the founder of UCode, a coding school for kids. His current research focuses on the estimation of individual treatment effects and their bounds. He works under the supervision of professor Judea Pearl.
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Aleksander (Alex) Molak is an independent machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and a best-selling author in the area of causality.
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Causal personalization?
Dima did not love computers enough to forget about his passion for understanding people.
His work at Booking.com focuses on recommender systems and personalization, and their intersection with AB testing, constrained optimization and causal inference.
Dima's passion for building things started early in his childhood and continues up to this day, but recent events in his life also bring new opportunities to learn.
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Dima Goldenberg is a Senior Machine Learning Manager at Booking.com, Tel Aviv, where he leads machine learning efforts in recommendations and personalization utilizing uplift modeling. Dima obtained his MSc in Tel Aviv University and currently pursuing PhD on causal personalization at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He led multiple conference workshops and tutorials on causality and personalization and his research was published in top journals and conferences including WWW, CIKM, WSDM, SIGIR, KDD and RecSys.
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Aleksander (Alex) Molak is an independent machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and a best-selling author in the area of causality (https://amzn.to/3QhsRz4).
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Was Deep Learning Revolution Bad For Causal Inference?
Did deep learning revolution slowed down the progress in causal research?
Can causality help in finding drug repurposing candidates?
What are the main challenges in using causal inference at scale?
Ehud Karavani, the author of the CausalLib Python library and Researcher at IBM Research shares his experiences and thoughts on these challenging questions.
Ehud believes in the power of good code, but for him code is not only about software development.
He sees coding as an inseparable part of modern-day research.
A powerful conversation for anyone interested in applied causal modeling.
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About The Guest
Ehud Karavani, MSc is Research Staff Member at IBM Research in the Causal Machine Learning for Healthcare & Life Sciences Group. He focuses on high-throughput causal inference for finding new indications for existing drugs using electronic health records and insurance claims data. He's the original author of Causallib - one of the first Python libraries specialized in causal inference.
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Aleksander (Alex) Molak is an independent machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and a best-selling author in the area of causality.
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Causal AI: The Melting Pot. Can Physics, Math & Biology Help Us?
What is the relationship between physics and causal models?
What can science of non-human animal behavior teach causal AI researchers?
Bernhard Schölkopf's rich background and experience allow him to combine perspectives from computation, physics, mathematics, biology, theory of evolution, psychology and ethology to build a deep understanding of underlying principles that govern complex systems and intelligent behavior.
His pioneering work in causal machine learning has revolutionized the field, providing new insights that enhance our ability to understand causal relationships and mechanisms in both natural and artificial systems.
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Bernhard Schölkopf, PhD is a Director at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He's one of the cofounders of European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and a recepient of the ACM Allen Newell Award, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and more. His contributions to modern machine learning are hard to overestimate. He's a an affiliated professor at ETH Zürich, honorary professor at the University of Tübingen and the Technical University Berlin. His pioneering work on causal inference and causal machine learning inspired thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide.
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What makes two tech giants collaborate on an open source causal AI package?
Emre's adventure with causal inference and causal AI has started before it was trendy.
He's one of the original core developers of DoWhy - one of the most popular and powerful Python libraries for causal inference - and a researcher focused on the intersection of causal inference, causal discovery, generative modeling and social impact.
His unique perspective, inspired by his experience with low-level programming combined with his vivid interest in how humans interact with technology, is driven by a deep seated desire to solve problems that matter to people.
In the episode we discuss:
🔹 What makes Microsoft and Amazon collaborate on an open source Python package?
🔹 Causal AI and the core of science
🔹 Is language model a world model?
🔹 When modeling physics is useful?
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About The Guest
Emre Kıcıman, PhD is a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research. He's one of the core developers of the DoWhy Python package, alongside Amit Sharma. He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University. Privately, he loves to climb and spend time with his family.
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Aleksander (Alex) Molak is an independent machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and a best-selling author in the area of causality.
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- DoWhy (https://www.pywhy.org/dowhy/v0.11.1/)
- EconML (https://econml.azurewebsites.net/)
- CausalPy (https://causalpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
Books
- Molak, A. - "Causal Inference and Discovery in Python"
- Pearl, J. - "Causality"
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