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ArticleProceedings of machine learning research2020

CAUSE: Learning Granger Causality from Event Sequences using Attribution Methods.

Wei Zhang, Thomas Kobber Panum, Somesh Jha, Prasad Chalasani, David Page

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Article in Proceedings of machine learning research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Adverse Drug Reaction Discovery from Electronic Health Records with Deep Neural Networks.Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning · 2020
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Wei ZhangComputer Scineces Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Thomas Kobber PanumDepartment of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Somesh JhaComputer Scineces Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Prasad ChalasaniXaiPient Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA.
David PageDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA..

Funding

Machine Learning for Identifying Adverse Drug EventsR01GM097618 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI CALDWELL, MICHAEL DEFOIX, HANSEN, RICHARD A. · 2011 to 2018
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the problem of learning Granger causality between event types from asynchronous, interdependent, multi-type event sequences. Existing work suffers from either limited model flexibility or poor model explainability and thus fails to uncover Granger causality across a wide variety of event sequences with diverse event interdependency. To address these weaknesses, we propose CAUSE (Causality from AttribUtions on Sequence of Events), a novel framework for the studied task. The key idea of CAUSE is to first implicitly capture the underlying event interdependency by fitting a neural point process, and then extract from the process a Granger causality statistic using an axiomatic attribution method. Across multiple datasets riddled with diverse event interdependency, we demonstrate that CAUSE achieves superior performance on correctly inferring the inter-type Granger causality over a range of state-of-the-art methods.

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PMID33274352
PMCPMC7710164

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