causal-relations-between-representations

@inproceedings{
  wang2022ncinet,
  title={Do learned representations respect causal relationships?},
  author={Lan Wang and Vishnu Naresh Boddeti},
  booktitle={Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2022}
}

Overview

NCINet is an approach for observational causal discovery from high-dimensional data. It is trained purely on synthetically generated representations and can be applied to real representations. It's also be applied to analyze the effect on the underlying causal relation between learned representations induced by various design choices in representation learning.

Dataset

We annotate each face image in CASIA-Webface with eight multi-label attributes: color of hair, visibility of eyes, type of eyewear, facial hair, whether the mouth is open, smiling or not, wearing a hat, visibility of forehead, and gender.

How to evalute NCInet (3Dshape)

Causal consistency on 6 causal pair graphs.

How to evalute NCInet (CASIA-Webface)

Causal consistency on 6 causal pair graphs.

Neural Causal Inference Net (Generalization Experiment on Synthetic Dataset)

Training and testing the Model

1. cd ./NCINet, set the causal function idx and adversarial as Example in run.sh:

    python main.py --args args/NN.txt --idx=0 --w=1
   

2. Run run.sh

3. For other parameters and settings, check args/NN.txt and config.py.

4. For visualization, run:

    tensorboard --logdir=runs