报告人:Jin Tian
报告地点:腾讯会议ID:967-350-684
报告时间:2025年12月16日星期二14:00-15:00
邀请人:王晓飞
报告摘要:
Causal effect measures are fundamental to understanding interventions and play key roles in causal explanation, decision-making, and responsibility attribution. Traditional measures, such as the Average Causal Effect (ACE), summarize causal relationships through averages but often obscure important heterogeneity in effects across individuals or subpopulations. In this talk, we introduce a set of new causal effect measures designed to capture and interpret causal heterogeneity. After reviewing standard measures and the Probabilities of Causation framework, we introduce new metrics that extend these ideas to continuous outcomes, propose characterizing the distribution of causal effects through its moments (variance, skewness, kurtosis), and present new measures for decision-making under multiple actions. Finally, we outline identification and bounding results for these measures under common causal assumptions, and illustrate their use in real-world applications.
主讲人简介:
Jin Tian is a Professor of Machine Learning at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. Prior to joining MBZUAI, he was Professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He received his B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University, M.S. in Physics from UCLA, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. Tian currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Causal Inference and an Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research. He has previously been an Associate Editor for the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013-2020) and Electronic Journal of Statistics (2011-2012), General Chair (2025) for the conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR), as well as Program Chair (2014) and General Chair (2015) for the conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).