arXiv AI

From Graphs to Gradients: Physics-Inspired Structural Attribution for Cyber-Physical IoT Systems and Beyond

arXiv:2607. 05563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretable explanation methods in Artificial Intelligence aim to uncover the underlying causes and their effects, enabling a deeper understanding of why a system behaves in a certain way under different inputs.

arXiv AI
Jun 6

Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs

arXiv:2606. 05966v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and reasoning about the physical world is the foundation of intelligent behavior, yet state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) still fail at causal physical reasoning, often producing plausible but incorrect answers.

By Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng, Tianyi Ma, Yew-Soon Ong, Ivor Tsang, Haiyan Yin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

A Unifying Perspective on Causal World Models: From Observations to Representations to Structure

World Models (WM) are increasingly seen as a foundation for intelligent agents that can predict, plan, and act beyond their training distribution. In this paper, we study WMs from a causal perspective across multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from perceptual observations to building a conceptual representation of the structure governing the environment dynamics.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

SDVDiag: Multimodal Causal Discovery for Online Diagnosis in Software-defined Vehicles

arXiv:2606. 15559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition toward software-defined vehicles concentrates an increasing share of vehicle functionality into distributed software services, where failures propagate through service dependencies and the surface symptom is often several causal hops away from the underlying defect.

By Matthias Wei{\ss}, Athreya Hosahalli Prakash, Falk Dettinger, Nasser Jazdi, Michael Weyrich
arXiv AI
3d ago

LogiC-Diff: Embedding Security Properties Into AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

The paper introduces LogiC-Diff, a logic-conditioned bi-stage diffusion framework that embeds Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications into AI-enabled cyber‑physical system (CPS) forecasting models. By using STL as a conditioning signal, the method repairs inputs and refines outputs to jointly mitigate adversarial perturbations and enforce desired temporal behaviors. Experiments on two real‑world CPS datasets show that LogiC-Diff consistently improves robustness and specification compliance across various sensor faults and cyber attacks, outperforming reconstruction‑based defenses.

By Ziyan An, John Stankovic, Meiyi Ma
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Estimating Inconsistency Response Surfaces under Uncertainty in Cyber-Physical System Development

The paper presents a method to estimate inconsistency response surfaces in Cyber‑Physical Systems (CPS) under uncertainty. By reformulating inconsistency as an intervention‑response modeling problem, the authors use Saltelli sampling and multi‑fidelity Monte Carlo estimation to generate datasets, then train a surrogate model that predicts inconsistency from propagated uncertainty geometry. Experiments on 48 scenarios across 10 CPS domains show that the surrogate matches Monte Carlo estimates while dramatically reducing evaluation time, enabling extensive sensitivity analysis and a gradient‑based consistency recourse method to identify minimal interventions that restore consistency.

By Johannes M\"akelburg, Tim Schwabe, Maribel Acosta
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Toward a Causal Data Management Ecosystem for Decision Making and Agentic AI

arXiv:2608. 07214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI is no longer a single model but an ecosystem: classical ML predictors, deep and multimodal models, large language models, and agents, each trained and tuned over different data sources and each producing outputs at scale that become inputs to the others.

By Dazhuo Qiu, Yingli Zhou, Amedeo Pachera, Angela Bonifati, Andrea Mauri