Summary of A Counterfactual Analysis Of the Dishonest Casino, by Martin Haugh and Raghav Singal
A Counterfactual Analysis of the Dishonest Casino
by Martin Haugh, Raghav Singal
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a novel approach to inferring cheating in a dishonest casino game using sequence modeling. The authors leverage structural causal models (SCMs) and linear programs (LPs) to bound the expected winnings attributable to cheating (EWAC), a challenging problem that goes beyond traditional hidden Markov model (HMM) primitives. By applying SCM consistent with HMM and incorporating domain-specific knowledge, the paper provides a framework for bounding counterfactuals in causal inference, especially in dynamic settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research explores how much of the casino’s winnings come from cheating, a question that goes beyond basic hidden Markov models. The authors create a new model called structural causal models (SCMs) and use linear programs (LPs) to estimate the expected winnings due to cheating (EWAC). They show that this approach can be used in educational settings where counterfactual inference is taught. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hidden markov model » Inference
