Copenhagen Causality Lab (CoCaLa)

We do research on causality, statistical modelling, and data analysis.

You can find us at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen and converse with us on matrix – just join #lobby:ucph.ems.host via the open network for secure, decentralized, cross-institutional communication.

Please reach out to us when you are interested in joining or working with us! Positions are announced via the department’s calls. The annual PhD calls have deadlines in April and November. The annual postdoc call opens in October with a deadline in November.

Members

⭐ [current favourite paper that the lab member co-authored] 🚀

Jeff Adams

Alexander Mangulad Christgau

⭐ Christgau et al. (2022) 🚀

Niels Richard Hansen

Leonard Henckel

Frederik Hytting Jørgensen

Steffen L. Lauritzen

Margherita Lazzaretto

⭐ Clemencon et al. (2023) 🚀

Anton Rask Lundborg

⭐ Lundborg et al. (2022) 🚀

⭐ Thams et al. (2022) 🚀

Sorawit Saengkyongam

⭐ Saengkyongam et al. (2021) 🚀

Sebastian Weichwald

⭐ Reisach et al. (2021) 🚀

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Alumni

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Articles

Preprints

2023 – “A bipartite ranking approach to the two-sample problem”
S. Clemencon, M. Limnios, & N. Vayatis
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2302.03592.
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2022 – “Identifying causal effects using instrumental time series: Nuisance IV and correcting for the past”
N. Thams, R. Søndergaard, S. Weichwald, & J. Peters
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2203.06056.
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2022 – “Nonparametric conditional local independence testing”
A. M. Christgau, L. Petersen, & N. R. Hansen
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2203.13559.
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2022 – “Supervised learning and model analysis with compositional data”
S. Huang, E. Ailer, N. Kilbertus, & N. Pfister
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2205.07271.
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2022 – “Graphical tools for selecting conditional instrumental sets”
L. Henckel, & M. Buttenschön
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2208.03697.
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2022 – “Confounder selection: Objectives and approaches”
F. R. Guo, A. R. Lundborg, & Q. Zhao
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2208.13871.
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2022 – “The Projected Covariance Measure for assumption-lean variable significance testing”
A. R. Lundborg, I. Kim, R. D. Shah, & R. J. Samworth
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2211.02039.
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2022 – “Statistical testing under distributional shifts”
N. Thams, S. Saengkyongam, N. Pfister, & J. Peters
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) (Accepted).
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2021 – “’Too many, too improbable’test statistics: A general method for testing joint hypotheses and controlling the k-FWER”
P. B. Mogensen, & B. Markussen
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2108.04731.
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2021 – “Local independence testing for point processes”
N. Thams, & N. R. Hansen
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2110.12709.
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2021 – “Invariant policy learning: A causal perspective”
S. Saengkyongam, N. Thams, J. Peters, & N. Pfister
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Accepted).
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Published articles (recent selection)

2022 – “Evaluating robustness to dataset shift via parametric robustness sets”
N. Thams*, M. Oberst*, & D. Sontag
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
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2022 – “A causal framework for distribution generalization”
R. Christiansen, N. Pfister, M. Jakobsen, N. Gnecco, & J. Peters
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 44(10), 6614–6630.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Structure learning for directed trees”
Martin Jakobsen, R. Shah, P. Bühlmann, & J. Peters
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23(159), 1–97.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Conditional independence testing in Hilbert spaces with applications to functional data analysis”
A. R. Lundborg, R. D. Shah, & J. Peters
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 84(5), 1821–1850.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Causal models for dynamical systems”
J. Peters, S. Bauer, & N. Pfister
In Probabilistic and causal inference: The works of judea pearl (pp. 671–690).
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “A robustness test for estimating total effects with covariate adjustment”
Z. Su, & L. Henckel
Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 180, 1886–1895.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Identifiability of sparse causal effects using instrumental variables”
N. Pfister, & J. Peters
Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 180, 1613–1622.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Exploiting independent instruments: Identification and distribution generalization”
S. Saengkyongam, L. Henckel, N. Pfister, & J. Peters
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Invariant ancestry search”
P. B. Mogensen, N. Thams, & J. Peters
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 162, 15832–15857.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Learning by Doing: Controlling a Dynamical System using Causality, Control, and Reinforcement Learning”
S. Weichwald, S. W. Mogensen, T. E. Lee, D. Baumann, O. Kroemer, I. Guyon, S. Trimpe, J. Peters, & N. Pfister
Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competition and Demonstration Track, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), 176, 246–258.
arXiv | bib | url
2022 – “Distributional robustness of k-class estimators and the PULSE”
M. Jakobsen, & J. Peters
The Econometrics Journal, 25(2), 404–432.
arXiv | bib
2021 – “Beware of the Simulated DAG! Causal Discovery Benchmarks May Be Easy To Game”
A. G. Reisach, C. Seiler, & S. Weichwald
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS).
arXiv | bib | url
2021 – “Causal discovery in heavy-tailed models”
N. Gnecco, N. Meinshausen, J. Peters, & S. Engelke
Annals of Statistics, 49(3), 1755–1778.
arXiv | bib
2021 – “Foundations of structural causal models with cycles and latent variables”
S. Bongers, P. Forre, J. Peters, & J. M. Mooij
Annals of Statistics, 49(5), 2885–2915.
arXiv | bib
2021 – “Causality in Cognitive Neuroscience: Concepts, Challenges, and Distributional Robustness”
S. Weichwald, & J. Peters
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(2), 226–247.
arXiv | bib | url
2021 – “Anchor regression: Heterogeneous data meets causality”
D. Rothenhäusler, P. Bühlmann, N. Meinshausen, & J. Peters
Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 83(2), 215–246.
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2021 – “The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function”
M. Migliavacca, T. Musavi, M. D. Mahecha, J. A. Nelson, J. Knauer, D. D. Baldocchi, O. Perez-Priego, R. Christiansen, J. Peters, K. Anderson, M. Bahn, T. A. Black, P. D. Blanken, D. Bonal, N. Buchmann, S. Caldararu, A. Carrara, N. Carvalhais, A. Cescatti, … M. Reichstein
Nature, 598, 468–472.
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2021 – “Regularizing towards causal invariance: Linear models with proxies”
M. Oberst, N. Thams, J. Peters, & D. Sontag
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
arXiv | bib
2021 – “Compositional Abstraction Error and a Category of Causal Models”
E. F. Rischel, & S. Weichwald
Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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2021 – “Stabilizing variable selection and regression”
N. Pfister, E. G. Williams, J. Peters, R. Aebersold, & P. Bühlmann
The Annals of Applied Statistics, 15(3), 1220–1246.
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2020 – “The hardness of conditional independence testing and the generalised covariance measure”
R. Shah, & J. Peters
Annals of Statistics, 48(3), 1514–1538.
arXiv | bib | url
2020 – “Towards causal inference for spatio-temporal data: Conflict and forest loss in Colombia”
R. Christiansen, M. Baumann, T. Kümmerle, M. Mahecha, & J. Peters
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(538), 591–601.
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2020 – “Causal structure learning from time series: Large regression coefficients may predict causal links better in practice than small p-values”
S. Weichwald, M. E. Jakobsen, P. B. Mogensen, L. Petersen, N. Thams, & G. Varando
Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2019 Competition and Demonstration Track, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 123, 27–36.
arXiv | bib | url
2019 – “Robustifying Independent Component Analysis by Adjusting for Group-Wise Stationary Noise”
N. Pfister, S. Weichwald, P. Bühlmann, & B. Schölkopf
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 20(147), 1–50.
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2019 – “Learning stable and predictive structures in kinetic systems”
N. Pfister, S. Bauer, & J. Peters
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(51), 25405–25411.
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