arXiv Machine Learning

CASL-VAE: Learning Structured Latent Variables from Unpaired Data for Semi-supervised Clustering and Paired Sample Generation

arXiv:2607. 08254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantifying variability in a target population relative to a reference population is central to many scientific and clinical problems (e.

arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 25

Neuro-Causal Factor Analysis

Neuro-Causal Factor Analysis (NCFA) reimagines traditional factor analysis by integrating causal structure learning and deep generative modeling. The method learns a directed graph linking latent and observed variables, then trains a deep generative model that respects the graph’s Markov factorization. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets show NCFA achieves lower reconstruction error than standard FA and better latent distribution recovery than a variational autoencoder, while offering a sparser architecture, reduced complexity, and causal interpretability.

By Alex Markham, Mingyu Liu, Bryon Aragam, Liam Solus