Domain adaptation by using causal inference to predict invariant conditional distributions

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 2018-December, Issue , 2018, Pages 10846-10856

  Magliacane, Sara ^a   Van Ommen, Thijs ^b   Claassen, Tom ^c   Bongers, Stephan ^b   Mooij, Joris M ^b   Versteeg, Philip ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CAUSAL INFERENCES; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS;

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EID: 85064819086     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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