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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.
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Paper ID
h829d8e94eb69e145
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2024
Pagerank
5.7826256e-05
Overall Rank
6,438 | 56.73%
DOI
10.1145/3639328
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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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