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DICTA
2007
13 years 11 months ago
The Tower of Knowledge Scheme for Learning in Computer Vision
A scheme, named tower of knowledge (ToK), is proposed for interpreting 3D scenes. The ToK encapsulates causal dependencies between object appearance and functionality. We demonstr...
Maria Petrou, Mai Xu
ICANN
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Assessing Statistical Reliability of LiNGAM via Multiscale Bootstrap
Structural equation models have been widely used to study causal relationships between continuous variables. Recently, a non-Gaussian method called LiNGAM was proposed to discover ...
Yusuke Komatsu, Shohei Shimizu, Hidetoshi Shimodai...
COGSCI
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
SGAI
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Causal Independence in Large Bayesian Networks
The assessment of a probability distribution associated with a Bayesian network is a challenging task, even if its topology is sparse. Special probability distributions based on t...
Rasa Jurgelenaite, Peter J. F. Lucas
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 5 months ago
Adjustment Criteria in Causal Diagrams: An Algorithmic Perspective
Identifying and controlling bias is a key problem in empirical sciences. Causal diagram theory provides graphical criteria for deciding whether and how causal effects can be iden...
Johannes Textor, Maciej Liskiewicz