Sep 16 – 20, 2024
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Colloquium - Causal and counterfactual inference and what they're good for

Sep 18, 2024, 2:00 PM
1h
PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/1-100 - Theatre

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

190
Colloquium

Speaker

Ciarán Gilligan-Lee (Spotify)

Description

Causal reasoning is vital for effective reasoning in many domains, from healthcare to economics. In medical diagnosis, for example, a doctor aims to explain a patient’s symptoms by determining the diseases causing them. This is because causal relations, unlike correlations, allow one to reason about the consequences of possible treatments and to answer counterfactual queries. In this talk I will present some recent work done with my collaborators about how one can learn and reason with counterfactual distributions, and why this is importantly for decision making. In all cases I will strive to motivate and contextualise the results with real word examples.

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