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BAYESIANISM AND CAUSALITY, OR, WHY I AM ONLY A HALF-BAYESIAN

28 May, 2020

In D. Corfield and J. Williamson (Eds.) Foundations of Bayesianism, Kluwer Applied Logic Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers,Vol. 24, 19-36, 2001. TECHNICAL REPORT R-284 July 2001   JUDEA PEARL   1 INTRODUCTION I turned Bayesian in 1971, as soon...

THE SILENT HISTORY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

24 May, 2020

Judea Pearl UCLA HPASS Los Angeles, CA Outline The Ubiquity of causal thinking in ethics and science, from ancient times to modernity. Why it kept silent till 1920. What prevented statisticians, economists, social and health scientists from answering...

A Guided Tour of Artificial Intelligence Research

14 May, 2020

Volume I: Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Learning Introduction The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of AI research, ranging from basic work to interfaces and applications, with as much emphasis on results as on current issues....

On The Reasons Behind Decisions

13 May, 2020

Adnan Darwiche, Auguste Hirth Professor Judea Pearl commented “Speaking about “explainable AI”, this paper shows that, even in classification tasks, and even after agreeing on a Bayesian Network classifier, answering “why”...

Causal Inference in Machine Learning and AI

08 May, 2020

Online lecture on causal data science wtih directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in the advanced applied econometrics course at KU Leuven, Belgium (May 7, 2020). Talk is based on the following paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09104 Further teaching material:...