Causal Modeling Advances in Complex Systems

The field of causal modeling is experiencing significant growth, with recent developments focusing on improving the accuracy and interpretability of causal inference in complex systems. Researchers are exploring new methods to identify causal relationships, such as leveraging causal abstraction, causal structure learning, and causal reasoning. These advances have far-reaching implications for various domains, including disease forecasting, language models, and molecular dynamics. Notably, the integration of causal modeling with machine learning and deep learning techniques is enabling more robust and generalizable predictions.

Some noteworthy papers in this area include: Mantis, a foundation model for disease forecasting that enables out-of-the-box forecasting across diseases and regions. Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Causal Reasoning, which introduces a supervised fine-tuning framework to improve causal reasoning capabilities in language models. Root Cause Analysis of Hydrogen Bond Separation in Spatio-Temporal Molecular Dynamics using Causal Models, which proposes a novel approach to identify the root cause variables of hydrogen bond formation and separation events.

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How Causal Abstraction Underpins Computational Explanation

Causal Structure Learning in Hawkes Processes with Complex Latent Confounder Networks

Mantis: A Simulation-Grounded Foundation Model for Disease Forecasting

Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Causal Reasoning

Root Cause Analysis of Hydrogen Bond Separation in Spatio-Temporal Molecular Dynamics using Causal Models

Score-informed Neural Operator for Enhancing Ordering-based Causal Discovery

A Shift in Perspective on Causality in Domain Generalization

Causally-Guided Pairwise Transformer -- Towards Foundational Digital Twins in Process Industry

Counterfactual Probabilistic Diffusion with Expert Models

CALYPSO: Forecasting and Analyzing MRSA Infection Patterns with Community and Healthcare Transmission Dynamics

Prediction of Hospital Associated Infections During Continuous Hospital Stays

Bounding Causal Effects and Counterfactuals

MissionHD: Data-Driven Refinement of Reasoning Graph Structure through Hyperdimensional Causal Path Encoding and Decoding

DIO: Refining Mutual Information and Causal Chain to Enhance Machine Abstract Reasoning Ability