Digital Journal

From bias to understanding: A causal path toward trustworthy recommendation

Now, a research team led by the University of Michigan has brought this rigorous frontier to one of AI’s most ubiquitous and influential applications: recommendation systems. Their groundbreaking work ...
Science Daily

A causal theory for studying the cause-and-effect relationships of genes

Researchers developed theoretical foundations for methods that could identify the best way to aggregate genes into modules and efficiently learn the underlying cause-and-effect relationships among ...
Nature

Causal Set Theory and Quantum Gravity

Causal Set Theory (CST) offers a compelling approach to reconciling quantum theory and general relativity by postulating that spacetime, at its most fundamental level, is discrete rather than ...
JSTOR Daily

The pauper's problem: chance, foreknowledge and causal decision theory

In a letter to Wlodek Rabinowicz, David Lewis introduced a decision scenario that he described as "much more problematic for decision theory than the Newcomb Problems". This scenario, which involves ...
EurekAlert!

A causal theory for studying the cause-and-effect relationships of genes

CAMBRIDGE, MA – By studying changes in gene expression, researchers learn how cells function at a molecular level, which could help them understand the development of certain diseases. But a human has ...