When learning a causal model from data, deriving counterfactual examples from the model can help to evaluate how plausible the mechanisms are and create hypotheses that can be tested with new data. Vlontzos and colleagues develop a deep learning-based method for answering counterfactual queries that can deal with categorical variables, rather than only binary ones, using the notion of ‘counterfactual ordering’.
- Athanasios Vlontzos
- Bernhard Kainz
- Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee