The 2018 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery

                                                                                                                     

August 20, 2018, London

 

PROGRAM

Accepted papers have been published in PMLR at:
Volume 92: Proceedings of 2018 KDD Workshop on Causal Discovery
(http://proceedings.mlr.press/v92/)

 

Time: 8:00AM – 12:00PM, August 20, 2018

 

8:00 -8:10

Opening and Welcome

Dr. Thuc Le, University of South Australia

8:10 – 9:00

Invited talk : Learning Causal Effects: Bridging Instruments and Backdoors

Dr. Ricardo Silva, University College London

9:00 – 9:20

Automated Identification of Causal Moderators in Time-Series Data (pdf)

Min Zheng, Jan Claassen, and Samantha Kleinberg


9:20
9:40

Causal Relationship Prediction with Continuous Additive Noise Models (pdf)

Mandar Chaudhary and Nagiza Samatova

9:40 – 10:00

-------- Coffee Break --------

10:0010:50

Invited Talk:Answering (some) Ad Hoc Causal Questions in Web Search

Emre Kıcıman, Microsoft Research

10:5011:10

Necessary and Probably Sufficient Test for Finding Valid Instrumental Variables  

Amit Sharma

11:10 11:30

Causal Structure Learning from Multivariate Time Series in Settings with Unmeasured Confounding (pdf)

Daniel Malinsky and Peter Spirtes

11:30 11:50

Evaluation of Causal Structure Learning Methods on Mixed Data Types (pdf)

Vineet Raghu, Allen Poon, and Takis Benos

11:50 – 12:00

Closing