English
Related papers

Related papers: Deconfounding Causal Inference through Two-Branch …

200 papers

With the rapid development of the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, human activity recognition (HAR) has been applied in a variety of domains such as security and surveillance, human-robot interaction,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Rex Liu , Albara Ah Ramli , Huanle Zhang , Erik Henricson , Xin Liu

Complex dynamical systems are prevalent in many scientific disciplines. In the analysis of such systems two aspects are of particular interest: 1) the temporal patterns along which they evolve and 2) the underlying causal mechanisms.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-31 Nicolas-Domenic Reiter , Andreas Gerhardus , Jakob Runge

Traditional machine learning methods for movement recognition often struggle with limited model interpretability and a lack of insight into human movement dynamics. This study introduces a novel representation learning framework based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xingrui Gu , Chuyi Jiang , Erte Wang , Qiang Cui , Leimin Tian , Lianlong Wu , Siyang Song , Chuang Yu

This paper proposes a Disentangled gEnerative cAusal Representation (DEAR) learning method under appropriate supervised information. Unlike existing disentanglement methods that enforce independence of the latent variables, we consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xinwei Shen , Furui Liu , Hanze Dong , Qing Lian , Zhitang Chen , Tong Zhang

Unobserved confounding is common in many applications, making causal inference from observational data challenging. As a remedy, causal sensitivity analysis is an important tool to draw causal conclusions under unobserved confounding with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Dennis Frauen , Fergus Imrie , Alicia Curth , Valentyn Melnychuk , Stefan Feuerriegel , Mihaela van der Schaar

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become an increasingly popular task for embedded devices such as smartwatches. Most HAR systems for ultra-low power devices are based on classic Machine Learning (ML) models, whereas Deep Learning (DL),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Francesco Daghero , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Massimo Poncino

Inducing causal relationships from observations is a classic problem in machine learning. Most work in causality starts from the premise that the causal variables themselves are observed. However, for AI agents such as robots trying to make…

Uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks is essential for designing reliable and robust AI systems. Applications such as video surveillance for identifying suspicious activities are designed with deep neural networks (DNNs), but DNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ranganath Krishnan , Mahesh Subedar , Omesh Tickoo

Systematic reviews are essential for evidence-based medicine, but reviewing 1.5 million+ annual publications manually is infeasible. Current AI approaches suffer from hallucinations in systematic review tasks, with studies reporting rates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Duc Ngo , Arya Rahgoza

This paper serves as a starting point for machine learning researchers, engineers and students who are interested in but not yet familiar with causal inference. We start by laying out an important set of assumptions that are collectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Kyunghyun Cho

Human activity recognition (HAR) from on-body sensors is a core functionality in many AI applications: from personal health, through sports and wellness to Industry 4.0. A key problem holding up progress in wearable sensor-based HAR,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Si Zuo , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Stephan Sigg , Paul Lukowicz

Causal inference from observational data is crucial for many disciplines such as medicine and economics. However, sharp bounds for causal effects under relaxations of the unconfoundedness assumption (causal sensitivity analysis) are subject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Dennis Frauen , Valentyn Melnychuk , Stefan Feuerriegel

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to en-hance recommendation quality by transferring knowledge across domains, offering effective solutions to data sparsity and cold-start issues. However, existing methods face three major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xingzi Wang , Qingtian Bian , Hui Fang

Graph data is becoming increasingly prevalent due to the growing demand for relational insights in AI across various domains. Organizations regularly use graph data to solve complex problems involving relationships and connections. Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Simi Job , Xiaohui Tao , Taotao Cai , Haoran Xie , Jianming Yong , Xin Wang

Gait recognition is a biometric technology that distinguishes individuals by their walking patterns. However, previous methods face challenges when accurately extracting identity features because they often become entangled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Haijun Xiong , Bin Feng , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu

The promise that causal modelling can lead to robust AI generalization has been challenged in recent work on domain generalization (DG) benchmarks. We revisit the claims of the causality and DG literature, reconciling apparent…

Human activity recognition requires the efforts to build a generalizable model using the training datasets with the hope to achieve good performance in test datasets. However, in real applications, the training and testing datasets may have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Wang Lu , Xinlong Jiang

Current studies in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) primarily focus on the classification of activities through sensor data, while there is not much emphasis placed on recognizing the individuals performing these activities. This type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Debashish Saha , Piyush Malik , Adrika Saha

Robustness to domain changes is a key capability for effective deployment of human action recognition systems in real-world scenarios, where action categories at inference can present important domain shifts or even unseen actions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yannick Porto , Renato Martins , Thomas Chalumeau , Cedric Demonceaux

Real-time monitoring in modern medical research introduces functional longitudinal data, characterized by continuous-time measurements of outcomes, treatments, and confounders. This complexity leads to uncountably infinite…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-15 Andrew Ying