Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views
Summary: CauSumX generates summarized causal explanations for entire aggregate views (group-by averages) via a causal DAG. It uses an optimization with Apriori+LP rounding to select group-specific causal treatments; scalable to high-dimensional data and outperforms prior work in usefulness and realism. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Brit Youngmann (Technion)
- 2. Michael Cafarella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Amir Gilad (Hebrew University)
- 4. Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{youngmann_sigmod24,
title = {{Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views}},
author = {Youngmann, Brit and Cafarella, Michael and Gilad, Amir and Roy, Sudeepa},
series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3639328},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639328},
year = {2024}
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| 9,055 | Causal DAG Summarization | 2025 | VLDB | 5.3251649e-05 |
| 9,773 | Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2209769e-05 |
| 10,391 | Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,436 | Causal Explanations for Disparate Trends: Where and Why? | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,502 | Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,708 | CausaLens: A System for Summarizing Causal DAGs | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,710 | CauSumX: Summarized Causal Explanations For Group-By-Average Queries | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,958 | What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,968 | Suna: Scalable Causal Confounder Discovery over Relational Data | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,098 | SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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