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Never Go Full Batch: Stochastic TMLE for Large-Scale Debiased Inference

Diyang Li, Fei Wang, Kyra Gan

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Causal Inference for Sequential Settings under Interference and Latent Confounding

Phevos Paschalidis, Constantinos Daskalakis, Devavrat Shah

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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PACO: Partial-order-Augmented Continuous Optimization for Differentiable Causal Discovery

Xiaoxuan Li, Junda Wu, Julian McAuley, Lina Yao and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Causal Effect Identification with a Single Agnostic Proxy

Xiu-Chuan Li, Tongliang Liu

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Semiparametric Efficient Tests for Interpretable Distributional Treatment Effects

Houssam Zenati, Arthur Gretton

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Bayesian Causal Experimental Design for CATE Estimation under Noncompliance

Erdun Gao, Yuanyuan Wang, Liang Zhang, Yuhang Liu and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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High-Dimensional Conditional Independence Testing via Random Projection Aggregation

Dian Jin, zirui chen, Ting Li, Jiaye Teng

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Bayesian Causal Stress Testing: Posterior Fragility of Treatment-Effect Conclusions

Makoto Nakakita, Teruo Nakatsuma

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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ML-assisted Randomization Tests for A/B Experiments

Wenxuan Guo, JungHo Lee, Panos Toulis

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Causal Discovery over Clusters of Variables in Non-Markovian Systems

Tara Anand, Adèle H Ribeiro, Jin Tian, George Hripcsak and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Weighted Sampling for Online Causal Discovery

Arnab Bhattacharyya, Philips George John, Sayantan Sen, Naganand Yadati

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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A Faster Algorithm for the Half-Trek Criterion in Structural Causal Models

Yasmine Briefs, Markus Bläser

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Causal Discovery Under Hard Selection Bias: A New Robust Score-Matching Approach

Yiwen Qiu, Francesco Montagna, Shimeng Huang, Francesco Locatello

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Identification and Bounding of Joint Expectation over Potential Outcomes

Yuta Kawakami, Jin Tian

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Joint Confounder Selection for Causal Mediation Analysis in High Dimensions

Chanmin Kim, Hyunwoo Kim

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Statistical Inference in Causal Partial Identification under Smooth Densities

Sirui Lin, Zijun Gao, Jose Blanchet, Peter W Glynn

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Causal learning with the invariance principle

Assuming acyclic, invariant causal relations across environments, two auxiliary environments identify arbitrary nonlinear causal graphs and enable correct counterfactual inference.

Francesco Montagna, Francesco Locatello

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Reconciling Causality and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics with Hamiltonian Causal Models

Hamiltonian Causal Models separate equations of motion from intervenable mechanisms and define causal effects as interventional path discrepancies, showing entropy production witnesses trajectory-level causal effects invisible to standard average treatment effects.

Dario Rancati, Max Welling, Francesco Locatello

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Coarsening Linear Non-Gaussian Causal Models with Cycles

Linear non-Gaussian cyclic models yield recoverable low-dimensional acyclic summaries representing observational equivalence classes, learnable in cubic time with sample complexity bounds.

Francisco Madaleno, Francisco Pereira, Alex Markham

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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DARTS: Targeting Prognostic Covariates in Budget-Constrained Sequential Experiments

DARTS sequentially acquires prognostic covariates within budget constraints to minimize variance while preserving valid causal inference coverage.

Kateryna Husar, Alexander Volfovsky

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Conditional Counterfactual Mean Embeddings: Doubly Robust Estimation and Learning Rates

Conditional counterfactual mean embeddings characterize counterfactual outcome distributions via RKHS embeddings, yielding doubly robust estimators with finite-sample convergence rates that recover multimodal structure.

Thatchanon Anancharoenkij, Donlapark Ponnoprat

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Extended Wasserstein-GAN Approach to Causal Distribution Learning: Density-Free Estimation and Minimax Optimality

GANICE minimizes averaged Wasserstein risk for conditional interventional distributions using an extended distance and cellwise critic, achieving minimax optimality without density estimation.

Shu Tamano, Masaaki Imaizumi

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Causal Abstractions, Categorically Unified

A categorical framework defines causal abstractions as natural transformations between Markov functors, unifying prior notions, yielding graphical consistency conditions, and validating high-level do-calculus on low-level graphs with unobserved confounders.

Markus Englberger, Devendra Singh Dhami

Paris Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Prediction-Intervention Games and Invariant Sets

Prediction-intervention games model leaders choosing predictors against followers intervening on covariates; stable-blanket predictors are provably optimal or near-optimal.

Linus Kühne, Felix Schur, Jonas Peters

Paris Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Causal Discovery via Transformed Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces

Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces model causal direction via monotone transformations yielding low-rank quantile surfaces, proving generic identifiability and outperforming location-scale methods on nonlinear, heteroscedastic data.

Ryo Kamimura, Thong Pham

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Calibeating Prediction-Powered Inference

Calibrated Prediction-Powered Inference post-hoc calibrates black-box predictions on labeled data to improve semisupervised mean estimation efficiency without retraining, with isotonic calibration achieving first-order optimality.

Lars van der Laan, Mark van der Laan

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Impossibility of Distribution-Free Predictive Inference for Individual Treatment Effects

Distribution-free predictive inference for individual treatment effects with continuous covariates requires trivial infinite-length prediction sets.

Chongguang Tao, Zheng Zhou, Yuhong Yang

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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PAIR-CI: Calibrated Conditional Independence Testing for Causal Discovery with Incomplete Data

PAIR-CI is a calibrated nonparametric conditional independence test for incomplete data that uses paired cross-validated imputation to cancel imputation error, controlling false positives near nominal levels and improving causal discovery accuracy over existing methods.

Thomas S. Robinson, Ranjit Lall

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Data-Driven Covariate Selection for Nonparametric and Cycle-Agnostic Causal Effect Estimation

Local data-driven covariate selection via conditional independence remains sound and complete in cyclic causal models, enabling unified cycle-agnostic causal effect estimation.

Ana L Vicente, Gijs van Seeventer, Saber Salehkaleybar

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Missing data and cluster graphs: cluster-level missingness vs variable-level missingness

This paper compares cluster-level and variable-level missingness graphs to derive conditions for recovering joint distributions and macro causal effects from coarse missingness models.

Willow Scott, Eugenio Valdano, Charles Assaad

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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The Causal Description Gap: Information-Theoretic Separations Across Pearl's Hierarchy

Binary acyclic SCMs with constant observational description length require Θ(n²) additional bits for interventional answers, and interventional oracles leave Θ(n) counterfactual gaps, matching ambiguity bounds.

Seyedmorteza Emadi

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Structural Causal Bottleneck Models

Structural causal bottleneck models assume causal effects depend on low-dimensional cause summaries, enabling flexible dimension reduction via standard algorithms, improved low-sample transfer, and identifiable bottlenecks.

Simon Bing, Jonas Wahl, Jakob Runge

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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