Embracing Causality in Default Reasoning

By Judea Pearl. 1988

Subfields: Natural Language Processing

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In Natural Language Processing

1. Ferenc Huszár
2. Sepp Hochreiter

Citations in the corpus

• CLOOB: Modern Hopfield Networks with InfoLOOB Outperform CLIP (2021, background): “Explaining away is known in reasoning as the concept that the confirmation of one cause of an observed event dismisses alternative causes (Pearl, 1988; Wellman & Henrion, 1993).”
• Variational Inference using Implicit Distributions (2017, methodology): “To this end, we have devised a simple toy problem loosely based on the “sprinkle” example which exhibits explaining away (Pearl, 1988).”