Thanks a lot for showing active interest in this subgroup & responding the earlier survey ( I have got response from 20 people which is super exciting ) .
I am creating this topic on the portal to have one active page for this subgroup.Many of you were interested in understanding more details about work done in this subgroup and plans for the year 2025. I have summarized the same below, Feel free to post your questions/doubts related with this subgroup. I will also be creating an event for our regular meeting cadence.
Background
The causal Inference subgroup is one of the subgroups in AI/ML AWG ( analysis working group) under the Open Science Data Repository AWG Community ‘Space.’
This subgroup works on building and improving solutions for causal inference in existing and new use cases of biological numerical data.
Improving the accuracy of the existing CRISP model & testing/validating new ML models can help improve the coverage/accuracy. One approach to this is to find a biomedical dataset(s) where the causal relationships have been already established in the lab, and validate our causal algorithms on that dataset. Another approach is to use a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach in which a known causal structure is embedded in a dataset.
Evaluating other machine learning models & approaches in causal inference that can also help in unstructured data ( text & images) ,We have a team working on a “multi-modal CRISP”, version of CRISP that can take numeric matrix data and images. It would be great for this subgroup to evaluate and ultimately use that version of CRISP to answer some scientific questions
Do a research project to answer a key scientific question in spaceflight, using the improved causal inference algorithms
Could anyone point us to datasets similar to the multi-omic colorectal cancer dataset mentioned in the CRISP study, or other biomedical datasets with causal structures suitable for validation?
It was the first introductory meeting,so I have not recorded but we will record it from the next time. For this meeting, I will share meeting notes in sometime. hope that helps.
I won’t be able to attend today’s meeting. I have another meeting between 9:30-10:30. I want to sign up for literature survey and would love to be put to use.
Please record the meeting so that I can listen in after my meeting?
Hello,
Is there any requirements to join? I would like to join as I have quite an interest in getting into ML. Thank you in advance for your responses!
I would make sure to contact @pmisra30 to get involved. Of note, @lauren.sanders is the AI/ML AWG lead. Also would be good to reach out to her on all subgroups
There is no specific requirements for this subgroup apart from what you generally expect in an AI-ML working group. if you have worked in datasets on causal discovery ,that would be great. else feel free to join the call
Apologies everyone, my office has mandated RTO on first 3 days of the week and hence I am struggling to join the 12:30 meeting on wednesday. I am trying to change it to Thursday but not able to do so on the portal. I should be able to fix it by next week and send you the new invite. Once again, apologies for this confusion @rtscott2001@lauren.sanders@james.casaletto
Hi Pramod,
Is it possible to have a different time please? The current meeting invite clashes with the digital twin group and I would like to be present in both.
