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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Welcome to an IDA Machine Learning Seminar on
<b>September 21, 15:15-16:15.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kth.se%2Fprofile%2Fbaue%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfredrik.lindsten%40liu.se%7C08cf6de0eef74a24f99e08da96926734%7C913f18ec7f264c5fa816784fe9a58edd%7C0%7C0%7C637987852797571947%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=avexJSseJHip0WR%2FA%2FX3frIEwejy6EGe%2BI8zJ4rzwFc%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:#225785;text-decoration:none">Stefan
Bauer</span></a>, Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Title: <span style="color:black">Learning Neural Causal Models</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Abstract:</span></i><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="color:black">Many questions in everyday life as well as in research are causal in nature: How would the climate change if we lower train prices or will my headache go away if I take an aspirin? Inherently, such questions need to specify the causal
variables relevant to the question and their interactions. However, existing algorithms for learning causal graphs from data are often not scaling well, both with the number of variables or the number of observations. This talk will provide a brief introduction
to causal structure learning, recent efforts in using continuous optimization to learn causal graphs at scale and systematic approaches to generate interventional data to identify the data generating mechanism as quickly as possible.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Location:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Ada Lovelace, House B,
<a href="https://www.ida.liu.se/department/location/search.en.shtml?keyword=ada">
https://www.ida.liu.se/department/location/search.en.shtml?keyword=ada</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Speaker Bio:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="color:black">Stefan Bauer is currently an assistant professor at KTH Stockholm and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Using and developing tools of causality, deep learning and real robotic systems, his research focuses on the longstanding goal of
artificial intelligence to design machines that can extrapolate experience across environments and tasks. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and was awarded with the ETH medal for an outstanding doctoral thesis. Before that, he graduated
with a BSc and MSc in Mathematics from ETH Zurich and a BSc in Economics and Finance from the University of London (LSE). During his studies, he held scholarships from the Swiss and German National Merit Foundation. In 2019, he won the best paper award at
the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML) and in 2020, he was the lead organizer of the real-robot-challenge.com, a robotics challenge in the cloud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The list of future seminars in the series is available at:
</span><a href="http://www.ida.liu.se/research/machinelearning/seminars/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ida.liu.se/research/machinelearning/seminars/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can subscribe to the seminar series' calendar using this ics link:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IDA Machine Learning Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Linköping University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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