Lars Lorch

Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation

2021 · Research Square

Abstract During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there have been burgeoning efforts to develop and deploy smartphone apps to expedite contact tracing and risk notification. Unfortunately, the success of these apps has been limited, partly owing …

Active Bayesian Causal Inference

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Causal discovery and causal reasoning are classically treated as separate and consecutive tasks: one first infers the causal graph, and then uses it to estimate causal effects of interventions. However, such a two-stage approach is …

Amortized Inference for Causal Structure Learning

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Inferring causal structure poses a combinatorial search problem that typically involves evaluating structures with a score or independence test. The resulting search is costly, and designing suitable scores or tests that capture prior knowledge is …