BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260603T075549EDT-74063suGF9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260603T115549Z DESCRIPTION:Title: 'Some steps towards causal representation learning'.\n\n Abstract:\n\nHigh-dimensional unstructured data such images or sensor data can often be collected cheaply in experiments\, but is challenging to use in a causal inference pipeline without extensive engineering and domain k nowledge to extract underlying latent factors. The long term goal of causa l representation learning is to find appropriate assumptions and methods t o disentangle latent variables and learn the causal mechanisms that explai n a system's behaviour. In this talk\, I'll present results from a series of recent papers that describe how we can leverage assumptions about a sys tem's causal mechanisms to provably disentangle latent factors. I will als o talk about the limitations of a commonly used injectivity assumption\, a nd discuss a hierarchy of settings that relax this assumption.\n\nSpeaker \n\nJason Hartford is currently a postdoc at Mila with Yoshua Bengio. Prev iously - PhD at UBC with Kevin Leyton-Brown. His research interest is focu sed on using deep learning for causal inference\, and on designing deep ne twork architectures for permutation invariant data.\n\n91ºÚÁÏÍø Statistics S eminar schedule: https://mcgillstat.github.io/\n\nhttps://mcgill.zoom.us/j /83436686293?pwd=b0RmWmlXRXE3OWR6NlNIcWF5d0dJQT09\n\nMeeting ID: 834 3668 6293\n\nPasscode: 12345\n\n \n DTSTART:20221007T193000Z DTEND:20221007T203000Z SUMMARY:Jason Hartford URL:/mathstat/channels/event/jason-hartford-342690 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR