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Spatio-Temporal Graphical Counterfactuals: An Overview

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  • Haebom

Author

Mingyu Kang, Duxin Chen, Ziyuan Pu, Jianxi Gao, Wenwu Yu

Outline

This paper addresses counterfactual reasoning, a crucial yet challenging task for AI to learn knowledge from data and improve performance in new scenarios. While numerous studies have proposed models involving latent outcome models and structural causal models, their modeling, theoretical foundations, and application methods differ. Furthermore, there is a lack of graphical approaches for inferring spatiotemporal counterfactuals that consider spatial and temporal interactions between multiple units. Therefore, this study aims to compare and discuss different counterfactual models, theories, and approaches, and to build an integrated graphical causal framework for inferring spatiotemporal counterfactuals.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways: Through a comparative analysis of various counterfactual models, we propose an integrated framework for spatial-temporal counterfactual reasoning. This approach overcomes the limitations of existing research and provides a more comprehensive model of counterfactual thinking.
Limitations: The proposed integrated framework may lack practical application and performance verification on real data. It may be difficult to build a general framework that encompasses all types of counterfactual thinking. It may also have limitations in effectively modeling complex spatial-temporal interactions.
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