PIRSA:24090092

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

Gilligan-Lee, C. (2024). Colloquium - Causal and counterfactual inference and what they're good for. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/24090092

Gilligan-Lee, Ciarán. Colloquium - Causal and counterfactual inference and what they're good for. Perimeter Institute, Sep. 18, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24090092 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:24090092,
            doi = {10.48660/24090092},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/24090092},
            author = {Gilligan-Lee, Ciar{\'a}n},
            keywords = {Quantum Foundations, Quantum Information},
            language = {en},
            title = {Colloquium - Causal and counterfactual inference and what they{\textquoteright}re good for},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2024},
            month = {sep},
            note = {PIRSA:24090092 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ciarán Gilligan-Lee Spotify (London)

Talk numberPIRSA:24090092
DOI10.48660/24090092
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

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.