On Causal and Anticausal Learning
Machine Learning
2012-07-03 v1 Machine Learning
Abstract
We consider the problem of function estimation in the case where an underlying causal model can be inferred. This has implications for popular scenarios such as covariate shift, concept drift, transfer learning and semi-supervised learning. We argue that causal knowledge may facilitate some approaches for a given problem, and rule out others. In particular, we formulate a hypothesis for when semi-supervised learning can help, and corroborate it with empirical results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1206.6471,
title = {On Causal and Anticausal Learning},
author = {Bernhard Schoelkopf and Dominik Janzing and Jonas Peters and Eleni Sgouritsa and Kun Zhang and Joris Mooij},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6471},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Appears in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1112.2738