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Causal structure learning is a key problem in many domains. Causal structures can be learnt by performing experiments on the system of interest. We address the largely unexplored problem of designing a batch of experiments that each…
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Parametric models, and particularly neural networks, require weight initialization as a starting point for gradient-based optimization. Recent work shows that a specific initial parameter set can be learned from a population of supervised…
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Nonparametric feature selection in high-dimensional data is an important and challenging problem in statistics and machine learning fields. Most of the existing methods for feature selection focus on parametric or additive models which may…