arXiv AI

Causal Inference under Interference with Learned Exposure Mappings

arXiv:2608. 19224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exposure mappings are often assumed to be known in causal spillover analyses.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Spatial Deconfounder: Interference-Aware Deconfounding for Spatial Causal Inference

arXiv:2510. 08762v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal inference in spatial domains faces two intertwined challenges: (1) unmeasured spatial factors, such as weather, air pollution, or mobility, that confound treatment and outcome, and (2) interference from nearby treatments that violate standard no-interference assumptions.

By Ayush Khot, Miruna Oprescu, Maresa Schr\"oder, Ai Kagawa, Xihaier Luo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 20

Transportable Causal Effect Estimation across Networks under Interference

The paper introduces TranCE, a doubly‑robust algorithm for estimating causal effects when an intervention is applied to one network but the interest lies in another, differing network. By extending selection diagrams to capture covariate and structural network shifts, the authors derive transport formulas for direct, spillover, and total effects, and validate the method on semi‑synthetic social‑network benchmarks and a real weather‑insurance field experiment.

By Xiaojing Du, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Debo Cheng, Jixue Liu, Thuc Duy Le
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

AI for Social Good: An Investigation of the Causal Relationship Between Environmental Regulations and Their Effects on Air Pollution in London, UK

arXiv:2606. 15257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air pollution regulation is central to urban public health governance, but estimating its effects is difficult because policies are implemented non-randomly and pollution trajectories are shaped by meteorology, socioeconomic change, temporal trends, and overlapping interventions.

By Yang Han, Jacqueline CK Lam, Victor OK Li, Yiu-Wai Man
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Learning Hierarchical Causal Representations of the Effects of Forcings on Temperature in Climate Models

The paper presents a hierarchical causal representation learning framework that models both internal climate variability and forced responses in sea surface temperature fields from a global climate model. By training on future climate change scenarios, the method accurately predicts long‑term global mean and regional temperature evolution and reproduces realistic responses to perturbations in greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations on unseen scenarios. This demonstrates the potential of causal representation learning to improve climate model emulation.

By Shan Zhao, Ilija Trajkovic, Julia Kaltenborn, Yaniv Gurwicz, Peer Nowack, David Rolnick, Julien Boussard
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Anti-causal domain generalization: Leveraging unlabeled data

arXiv:2602. 17187v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments.

By Sorawit Saengkyongam, Juan L. Gamella, Andrew C. Miller, Jonas Peters, Nicolai Meinshausen, Christina Heinze-Deml
arXiv AI
Jun 11

FOCUS on Contamination: Hydrology-Informed Noise-Aware Learning for Geospatial PFAS Mapping

arXiv:2502. 14894v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants with significant public health impacts, yet large-scale monitoring remains severely limited due to the high cost and logistical challenges of field sampling.

By Jowaria Khan, Alexa Friedman, Sydney Evans, Rachel Klein, Runzi Wang, Katherine E. Manz, Kaley Beins, David Q. Andrews, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly