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- research-articleOctober 2024
A Causal Approach to Mitigate Modality Preference Bias in Medical Visual Question Answering
VLM4Bio'24: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Vision-Language Models for Biomedical ApplicationsPages 13–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3689096.3689459Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of clinical diagnosis by providing accurate and timely responses to clinicians' inquiries regarding medical images. Existing MedVQA models suffered from modality ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
Path-Specific Causal Reasoning for Fairness-aware Cognitive Diagnosis
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 4143–4154https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3672049Cognitive Diagnosis (CD), which leverages students and exercise data to predict students' proficiency levels on different knowledge concepts, is one of fundamental components in Intelligent Education. Due to the scarcity of student-exercise interaction ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Debugging Pathways: Open-Ended Discrepancy Noticing, Causal Reasoning, and Intervening
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 24, Issue 2Article No.: 28, Pages 1–34https://doi.org/10.1145/3650115Learning to respond to a computer program that is not working as intended is often characterized as finding a singular bug causing a singular problem. This framing underemphasizes the wide range of ways that students and teachers could notice ...
- short-paperJune 2024
Identifying Performance Issues in Microservice Architectures through Causal Reasoning
AST '24: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2024)Pages 149–153https://doi.org/10.1145/3644032.3644460Evaluating the performance of Microservices Architectures (MSA) is essential to ensure their proper functioning and meet end-user satisfaction. For MSA performance analysts, one of the most challenging tasks is to determine the cause of any deviation of ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Causality-driven Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 33, Issue 3Article No.: 74, Pages 1–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3635709Testing Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) is essential for safe development of self-driving cars. For thorough and realistic testing, ADS are usually embedded in a simulator and tested in interaction with the simulated environment. However, their high ...
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- research-articleMarch 2024
Interact with the Explanations: Causal Debiased Explainable Recommendation System
WSDM '24: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data MiningPages 472–481https://doi.org/10.1145/3616855.3635855In recent years, the field of recommendation systems has witnessed significant advancements, with explainable recommendation systems gaining prominence as a crucial area of research. These systems aim to enhance user experience by providing transparent ...
- extended-abstractDecember 2023
Improving Undergraduate Learner's Cyber Security Vulnerability Analysis Skills
CompEd 2023: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 2Pages 175–176https://doi.org/10.1145/3617650.3624923Due to increasing cyber crimes, cyber security analyst and problem solvers are in huge demand. These designations entail certain skills which an individual needs to acquire such as analyzing logs, system debugging etc. Through teacher-student interviews ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
Visual Causal Scene Refinement for Video Question Answering
MM '23: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on MultimediaPages 377–386https://doi.org/10.1145/3581783.3611873Existing methods for video question answering (VideoQA) often suffer from spurious correlations between different modalities, leading to a failure in identifying the dominant visual evidence and the intended question. Moreover, these methods function as ...
- posterJuly 2023
An Evolutionary Strategy for Automatic Hypotheses Generation inspired by Abductive Reasoning
GECCO '23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary ComputationPages 235–238https://doi.org/10.1145/3583133.3590568This paper proposes a new evolutionary strategy - called Evolutionary Abduction (EVA) - designed to target a class of problems called Combinatorial Causal Optimization Problems (CCOP). In a CCOP, the goal is to find combinations of causes that best ...
- posterMay 2023
Causal Explanations for Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty
AAMAS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent SystemsPages 2307–2309As autonomous decision making becomes ubiquitous, researchers agree that developing trust is required for adoption and proficient use of AI systems [20, 35, 39], and it is widely accepted that autonomous agents that can explain their decisions help ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
Reasoning-Based Software Testing
ICSE-NIER '23: Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging ResultsPages 66–71https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-NIER58687.2023.00018With software systems becoming increasingly pervasive and autonomous, our ability to test for their quality is severely challenged. Many systems are called to operate in uncertain and highly-changing environment, not rarely required to make ...
- research-articleNovember 2022
Membership Inference Attacks and Generalization: A Causal Perspective
CCS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications SecurityPages 249–262https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560694Membership inference (MI) attacks highlight a privacy weakness in present stochastic training methods for neural networks. It is not well understood, however, why they arise. Are they a natural consequence of imperfect generalization only? Which ...
- short-paperOctober 2022
Structural causal models as boundary objects in AI system development
CAIN '22: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on AI Engineering: Software Engineering for AIPages 43–45https://doi.org/10.1145/3522664.3528615Artificial Intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning can be used to find statistical patterns in datasets with thousands of variables with ease. But an understanding of causality is difficult to learn for a machine. For humans however, ...
- research-articleOctober 2021
Counterfactual Debiasing Inference for Compositional Action Recognition
MM '21: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on MultimediaPages 3220–3228https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3475472Compositional action recognition is a novel challenge in the computer vision community and focuses on revealing the different combinations of verbs and nouns instead of treating subject-object interactions in videos as individual instances only. ...
- research-articleAugust 2021
Model-Agnostic Counterfactual Reasoning for Eliminating Popularity Bias in Recommender System
KDD '21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data MiningPages 1791–1800https://doi.org/10.1145/3447548.3467289The general aim of the recommender system is to provide personalized suggestions to users, which is opposed to suggesting popular items. However, the normal training paradigm, i.e., fitting a recommender model to recover the user behavior data with ...
- short-paperMarch 2019
An intelligent assistant for mediation analysis in visual analytics
IUI '19: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User InterfacesPages 432–436https://doi.org/10.1145/3301275.3302325Mediation analysis is commonly performed using regressions or Bayesian network analysis in statistics, psychology, and health science; however, it is not effectively supported in existing visualization tools. The lack of assistance poses great risks ...
- tutorialJanuary 2019
Causal Inference and Counterfactual Reasoning (3hr Tutorial)
WSDM '19: Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data MiningPages 828–829https://doi.org/10.1145/3289600.3291381As computing systems are more frequently and more actively intervening to improve people's work and daily lives, it is critical to correctly predict and understand the causal effects of these interventions. Conventional machine learning methods, built ...
- extended-abstractJune 2018
Hound: Causal Learning for Datacenter-scale Straggler Diagnosis
SIGMETRICS '18: Abstracts of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer SystemsPages 59–61https://doi.org/10.1145/3219617.3219641Stragglers are exceptionally slow tasks within a job that delay its completion. Stragglers, which are uncommon within a single job, are pervasive in datacenters with many jobs. We present Hound, a statistical machine learning framework that infers the ...
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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review: Volume 46 Issue 1 - research-articleApril 2018
Hound: Causal Learning for Datacenter-scale Straggler Diagnosis
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), Volume 2, Issue 1Article No.: 17, Pages 1–36https://doi.org/10.1145/3179420Stragglers are exceptionally slow tasks within a job that delay its completion. Stragglers, which are uncommon within a single job, are pervasive in datacenters with many jobs. A large body of research has focused on mitigating datacenter stragglers, but ...
- research-articleJune 2015
Combining fuzzy inference, cultural algorithm and causal reasoning to diagnose faults in complex systems
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS), Volume 12, Issue 2Pages 89–101https://doi.org/10.3233/HIS-150208To ensure complex systems reliability and to extent their life cycle, it is crucial to properly and timely detect and localize the causes of eventual faults. In this context, this paper describes a new intelligent approach to diagnose (single and ...