Introducing CausalBench: A Flexible Benchmark Framework for Causal Analysis and Machine Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08419v2
• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:16:02 GMT
• Title: Introducing CausalBench: A Flexible Benchmark Framework for Causal Analysis and Machine Learning
• Authors: Ahmet Kapkiç, Pratanu Mandal, Shu Wan, Paras Sheth, Abhinav Gorantla, Yoonhyuk Choi, Huan Liu, K. Selçuk Candan,
• Abstract summary: Causal learning aims to go far beyond conventional machine learning, yet several major challenges remain. We introduce em CausalBench, a transparent, fair, and easy-to-use evaluation platform.
• Score: 10.686245134005047
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While witnessing the exceptional success of machine learning (ML) technologies in many applications, users are starting to notice a critical shortcoming of ML: correlation is a poor substitute for causation. The conventional way to discover causal relationships is to use randomized controlled experiments (RCT); in many situations, however, these are impractical or sometimes unethical. Causal learning from observational data offers a promising alternative. While being relatively recent, causal learning aims to go far beyond conventional machine learning, yet several major challenges remain. Unfortunately, advances are hampered due to the lack of unified benchmark datasets, algorithms, metrics, and evaluation service interfaces for causal learning. In this paper, we introduce {\em CausalBench}, a transparent, fair, and easy-to-use evaluation platform, aiming to (a) enable the advancement of research in causal learning by facilitating scientific collaboration in novel algorithms, datasets, and metrics and (b) promote scientific objectivity, reproducibility, fairness, and awareness of bias in causal learning research. CausalBench provides services for benchmarking data, algorithms, models, and metrics, impacting the needs of a broad of scientific and engineering disciplines.

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