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Tesi etd-05162024-161630


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
FAN, YIJIANG
URN
etd-05162024-161630
Titolo
Counterfactual Reasoning and Learning in Causal Abstraction
Dipartimento
INFORMATICA
Corso di studi
DATA SCIENCE AND BUSINESS INFORMATICS
Relatori
relatore Prof. Bacciu, Davide
relatore Massidda, Riccardo
Parole chiave
  • causal abstraction
  • causality
  • counterfactual
Data inizio appello
31/05/2024
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
A Causal Abstraction establishes a relationship between two Structural Causal Mod-
els (SCMs ) at two different levels of granularity, ensuring that each high-level inter-
ventional distribution is consistent with an intervention performed on the low-level
model. In the present work we focus on linear SCMs and linear abstractions. The
present work tackles the problem of expressing and solving counterfactuals of aggre-
gate variables, within the framework of Causal Abstraction. Furthermore, the work
proposes a methodology to fit a set of linear abstraction functions and a high-level
SCM given a low-level SCM. The proposed methodology ensures the consistency on
low-level and high-level SCMs of a given counterfactual query.
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