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Causal discovery aims at revealing causal relations from observational data, which is a fundamental task in science and engineering. We describe $\textit{causal-learn}$, an open-source Python library for causal discovery. This library…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yujia Zheng , Biwei Huang , Wei Chen , Joseph Ramsey , Mingming Gong , Ruichu Cai , Shohei Shimizu , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Debugging of large software systems consisting of many processes accessing shared resources is a very difficult task. Many commercial systems record essential events during system execution for post-mortem analysis. However, the event…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raymond Smith , Bogdan Korel

Causality is receiving increasing attention by the artificial intelligence and machine learning communities. This paper gives an example of modelling a recommender system problem using causal graphs. Specifically, we approached the causal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Emanuele Cavenaghi , Fabio Stella , Markus Zanker

Neural networks have had discernible achievements in a wide range of applications. The wide-spread adoption also raises the concern of their dependability and reliability. Similar to traditional decision-making programs, neural networks can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Bing Sun , Jun Sun , Hong Long Pham , Jie Shi

Recently, we can notice a transition to data-driven techniques in Automated Program Repair (APR), in particular towards deep neural networks. This entails training on hundreds of thousands or even millions of non-executable code fragments.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Julian Aron Prenner , Romain Robbes

Causal reasoning is the main learning and explanation tool used by humans. AI systems should possess causal reasoning capabilities to be deployed in the real world with trust and reliability. Introducing the ideas of causality to machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy

This paper proposes TASKPROF, a profiler that identifies parallelism bottlenecks in task parallel programs. It leverages the structure of a task parallel execution to perform fine-grained attribution of work to various parts of the program.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Adarsh Yoga , Santosh Nagarakatte

While modern multivariate forecasters such as Transformers and GNNs achieve strong benchmark performance, they often suffer from systematic errors at specific variables or horizons and, critically, lack guarantees against performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Jianxiang Xie , Yuncheng Hua , Mingyue Cheng , Flora Salim , Hao Xue

Optimal Causation Entropy (oCSE) is a robust causal network modeling technique that reveals causal networks from dynamical systems and coupled oscillators, distinguishing direct from indirect paths. CausationEntropy is a Python package that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kevin Slote , Jeremie Fish , Erik Bollt

We introduce OpportunityFinder, a code-less framework for performing a variety of causal inference studies with panel data for non-expert users. In its current state, OpportunityFinder only requires users to provide raw observational data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Huy Nguyen , Prince Grover , Devashish Khatwani

Causal discovery with time series data remains a challenging yet increasingly important task across many scientific domains. Convergent cross mapping (CCM) and related methods have been proposed to study time series that are generated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Kurt Butler , Daniel Waxman , Petar M. Djurić

While correlation measures are used to discern statistical relationships between observed variables in almost all branches of data-driven scientific inquiry, what we are really interested in is the existence of causal dependence. Designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Ishanu Chattopadhyay

In this work we establish and investigate connections between causality for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new problems in databases, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Babak Salimi , Leopoldo Bertossi

Software bugs claim approximately 50% of development time and cost the global economy billions of dollars. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Parvez Mahbub , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

A correspondence between database tuples as causes for query answers in databases and tuple-based repairs of inconsistent databases with respect to denial constraints has already been established. In this work, answer-set programs that…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Leopoldo Bertossi

Causal discovery is challenging in general dynamical systems because, without strong structural assumptions, the underlying causal graph may not be identifiable even from interventional data. However, many real-world systems exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Panayiotis Panayiotou , Özgür Şimşek

Models of actual causality leverage domain knowledge to generate convincing diagnoses of events that caused an outcome. It is promising to apply these models to diagnose and repair run-time property violations in cyber-physical systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Pengyuan Lu , Ivan Ruchkin , Matthew Cleaveland , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Causal analyses derived from observational data underpin high-stakes decisions in domains such as healthcare, public policy, and economics. Yet such conclusions can be surprisingly fragile: even minor data errors - duplicate records, or…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yarden Gabbay , Haoquan Guan , Shaull Almagor , El Kindi Rezig , Brit Youngmann , Babak Salimi

The art of finding software vulnerabilities has been covered extensively in the literature and there is a huge body of work on this topic. In contrast, the intentional insertion of exploitable, security-critical bugs has received little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jannik Pewny , Thorsten Holz

System behavior is often based on causal relations between certain events (e.g. If event1, then event2). Consequently, those causal relations are also textually embedded in requirements. We want to extract this causal knowledge and utilize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jannik Fischbach , Benedikt Hauptmann , Lukas Konwitschny , Dominik Spies , Andreas Vogelsang