Soroco Blog Optimizing Causal Graphs: A Modern Perspective

Optimizing Causal Graphs: A Modern Perspective 17th Jan 2024 6:30 PM IST | 8:00 AM EST | 1:00 PM GMT About this Session Interpretability and causality are essential in modern machine learning systems. Understanding how different factors influence each other is crucial for building trustworthy and transparent models. Graphical models, particularly directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), are effective tools for representing these relationships, as they clearly illustrate how one factor can directly cause another. Despite their intuitive nature, determining the structure of DAGs from data is challenging due to the need to test numerous possible combinations, often relying on heuristic methods. In this talk, Kevin will present a fresh perspective on this challenge. Rather than using traditional methods, he will demonstrate how to transform the problem into a smoother, more streamlined optimization process that avoids complex discrete combinations. This innovative approach opens up new possibilities for efficiently and generically discovering causal relationships in data. About the Speaker Kevin Bello is a Research Scientist at Soroco. Previously, he was an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow and a postdoctoral researcher jointly affiliated with the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Before that, Kevin earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. About this Session A regular series by Soroco, Tech Talks are expert-led technical sessions that deep dive into a specific area of technology and provide engineers valuable insights and tools. It also examines fascinating research, use cases and facilitates larger conversations around cutting-edge tech. See Scout in action. Schedule your demo now! Get in TouchThe post Optimizing Causal Graphs: A Modern Perspective appeared first on .