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Directed acyclic graph (DAG) learning is a central task in structure discovery and causal inference. Although the field has witnessed remarkable advances over the past few years, it remains statistically and computationally challenging to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-09 Ryan Thompson , Edwin V. Bonilla , Robert Kohn

Due to the heterogeneity of real-world data, the widely accepted independent and identically distributed (IID) assumption has been criticized in recent studies on causality. In this paper, we argue that instead of being a questionable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jiqing Wu , Inti Zlobec , Maxime Lafarge , Yukun He , Viktor H. Koelzer

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) aims to leverage knowledge from a relatively data-richer source domain to address the data sparsity problem in a relatively data-sparser target domain. While CDR methods need to address the distribution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jiajie Zhu , Yan Wang , Feng Zhu , Pengfei Ding , Hongyang Liu , Zhu Sun

In the past decades, machine learning with Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) has demonstrated great capability in learning and exploiting the statistical patterns from data, or even surpassing humans. Despite the success, ERM avoids the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yongqiang Chen

Many questions in science center around the fundamental problem of understanding causal relationships. However, most constraint-based causal discovery algorithms, including the well-celebrated PC algorithm, often incur an exponential number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Kirankumar Shiragur , Jiaqi Zhang , Caroline Uhler

Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning aims to infer future facts at unseen timestamps from temporally evolving entities and relations. Despite recent progress, existing approaches still suffer from inherent limitations due to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shuai-Long Lei , Xiaobin Zhu , Jiarui Liang , Guoxi Sun , Zhiyu Fang , Xu-Cheng Yin

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from the majority within a graph, playing a crucial role in applications such as social networks and e-commerce. Despite the current advancements in deep learning-based GAD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunfeng Zhao , Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Qingfeng Chen , Yu Zheng , Shirui Pan

Since distribution shifts are common in real-world applications, there is a pressing need to develop prediction models that are robust against such shifts. Existing frameworks, such as empirical risk minimization or distributionally robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-25 Xinwei Shen , Peter Bühlmann , Armeen Taeb

While deep neural networks have made remarkable progress in various vision tasks, their performance typically deteriorates when tested in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. Many OOD methods focus on extracting domain-invariant features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qiaowei Miao , Yawei Luo , Yi Yang

Several causal discovery algorithms have been proposed. However, when the sample size is small relative to the number of variables, the accuracy of estimating causal graphs using existing methods decreases. And some methods are not feasible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-06 Ming Cai , Hisayuki Hara

We propose an end-to-end deep learning learning model for graph classification and representation learning that is invariant to permutation of the nodes of the input graphs. We address the challenge of learning a fixed size graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Peter Meltzer , Marcelo Daniel Gutierrez Mallea , Peter J. Bentley

Data imputation addresses the challenge of imputing missing values in database instances, ensuring consistency with the overall semantics of the dataset. Although several heuristics which rely on statistical methods, and ad-hoc rules have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jiang Hua , Michael Bewong , Selasi Kwashie , MD Geaur Rahman , Junwei Hu , Xi Guo , Zaiwen Fen

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify anomalous graphs that significantly deviate from other ones, which has raised growing attention due to the broad existence and complexity of graph-structured data in many real-world scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Zhoumin Lu , Wenzhong Guo , See-kiong Ng

Modeling causal relationships in graph representation learning remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches often draw on theories and methods from causal inference to identify causal subgraphs or mitigate confounders. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hang Gao , Kunyu Li , Huang Hong , Baoquan Cui , Fengge Wu

Detecting data points deviating from the training distribution is pivotal for ensuring reliable machine learning. Extensive research has been dedicated to the challenge, spanning classical anomaly detection techniques to contemporary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xuefeng Du , Yiyou Sun , Yixuan Li

Most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) predict the labels of unseen graphs by learning the correlation between the input graphs and labels. However, by presenting a graph classification investigation on the training graphs with severe bias,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Shaohua Fan , Xiao Wang , Yanhu Mo , Chuan Shi , Jian Tang

Learning representation on graph plays a crucial role in numerous tasks of pattern recognition. Different from grid-shaped images/videos, on which local convolution kernels can be lattices, however, graphs are fully coordinate-free on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jiatao Jiang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu , Jian Yang

The goal of Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization problem is to train a predictor that generalizes on all environments. Popular approaches in this field use the hypothesis that such a predictor shall be an \textit{invariant predictor}…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-29 Masanori Koyama , Shoichiro Yamaguchi

Decentralized learning enables a group of collaborative agents to learn models using a distributed dataset without the need for a central parameter server. Recently, decentralized learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yasaman Esfandiari , Sin Yong Tan , Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Ethan Herron , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Encouraging progress has been made towards Visual Question Answering (VQA) in recent years, but it is still challenging to enable VQA models to adaptively generalize to out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. Intuitively, recompositions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jingjing Jiang , Ziyi Liu , Yifan Liu , Zhixiong Nan , Nanning Zheng