Computer Science & AI

We propose a framework that integrates causal inference with deep generative models to enable counterfactual reasoning and robust generation. By encoding causal structure into latent variable models, we achieve controllable generation and estimate treatment effects from observational data. Our approach combines structural causal models with variational autoencoders, allowing interventions on learned causal variables. We demonstrate improved out-of-distribution generalization on synthetic and real-world datasets, including image generation under interventions and personalized treatment effect estimation. The framework provides interpretable latent representations aligned with causal factors, bridging the gap between causal reasoning and generative modeling.

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