From Identifiable Causal Representations to Controllable Counterfactual Generation: A Survey on Causal Generative Modeling
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| author | Komanduri, Aneesh Wu, Xintao Wu, Yongkai Chen, Feng |
| author_facet | Komanduri, Aneesh Wu, Xintao Wu, Yongkai Chen, Feng |
| contents | Deep generative models have shown tremendous capability in data density estimation and data generation from finite samples. While these models have shown impressive performance by learning correlations among features in the data, some fundamental shortcomings are their lack of explainability, tendency to induce spurious correlations, and poor out-of-distribution extrapolation. To remedy such challenges, recent work has proposed a shift toward causal generative models. Causal models offer several beneficial properties to deep generative models, such as distribution shift robustness, fairness, and interpretability. Structural causal models (SCMs) describe data-generating processes and model complex causal relationships and mechanisms among variables in a system. Thus, SCMs can naturally be combined with deep generative models. We provide a technical survey on causal generative modeling categorized into causal representation learning and controllable counterfactual generation methods. We focus on fundamental theory, methodology, drawbacks, datasets, and metrics. Then, we cover applications of causal generative models in fairness, privacy, out-of-distribution generalization, precision medicine, and biological sciences. Lastly, we discuss open problems and fruitful research directions for future work in the field. |
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| spellingShingle | From Identifiable Causal Representations to Controllable Counterfactual Generation: A Survey on Causal Generative Modeling Komanduri, Aneesh Wu, Xintao Wu, Yongkai Chen, Feng Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Deep generative models have shown tremendous capability in data density estimation and data generation from finite samples. While these models have shown impressive performance by learning correlations among features in the data, some fundamental shortcomings are their lack of explainability, tendency to induce spurious correlations, and poor out-of-distribution extrapolation. To remedy such challenges, recent work has proposed a shift toward causal generative models. Causal models offer several beneficial properties to deep generative models, such as distribution shift robustness, fairness, and interpretability. Structural causal models (SCMs) describe data-generating processes and model complex causal relationships and mechanisms among variables in a system. Thus, SCMs can naturally be combined with deep generative models. We provide a technical survey on causal generative modeling categorized into causal representation learning and controllable counterfactual generation methods. We focus on fundamental theory, methodology, drawbacks, datasets, and metrics. Then, we cover applications of causal generative models in fairness, privacy, out-of-distribution generalization, precision medicine, and biological sciences. Lastly, we discuss open problems and fruitful research directions for future work in the field. |
| title | From Identifiable Causal Representations to Controllable Counterfactual Generation: A Survey on Causal Generative Modeling |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11011 |