My current research aims to develop machine learning techniques that will bridge the gap between randomized experiments and empirical inference, enabling machines to better learn causality from data. It has numerous applications in observational studies, medical diagnosis, economics, and online advertisement, for example. To this end, I am employing tools and analyses from related disciplines including but not limited to
In general, I aim to address the most fundamental problems in machine learning and to leverage such insights in solving real-world problems in related disciplines. You can find more information about me and my work at http://krikamol.org.
Kernel methods Observational studies Causal inference RKHS
These are examples of projects I have been working on.
My full research statement can also be found at http://krikamol.org/krikamol-research.pdf.
A Hilbert space embedding of distributions (KME)---which generalizes the feature map of individual points to probability measures---has emerged as a powerful machinery for probabilistic modeling, machine learning, and causal discovery. The idea behind this framework is to map distributions into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RK...
Bernhard Schölkopf Ilya Tolstikhin David Lopez-Paz Krikamol Muandet
Mehrjou, A., Jitkrittum, W., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K.
Witnessing Adversarial Training in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
2019 (conference) Submitted
Muandet, K., Kanagawa, M., Saengkyongam, S., Marukata, S.
Counterfactual Mean Embedding: A Kernel Method for Nonparametric Causal Inference
Workshop on Machine Learning for Causal Inference, Counterfactual Prediction, and Autonomous Action (CausalML) at ICML, July 2018 (conference)
Shah*, N., Tabibian*, B., Muandet, K., Guyon, I., von Luxburg, U.
Design and Analysis of the NIPS 2016 Review Process
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 19(49):1-34, 2018, *equal contribution (article)
Muandet, K., Kanagawa, M., Saengkyongam, S., Marukata, S.
Counterfactual Mean Embedding: A Kernel Method for Nonparametric Causal Inference
Arxiv e-prints, arXiv:1805.08845v1 [stat.ML], 2018 (article)
Zhang, Y., Tang, S., Muandet, K., Jarvers, C., Neumann, H.
Local Temporal Bilinear Pooling for Fine-grained Action Parsing
arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01922, 2018 (article)
Muandet, K., Fukumizu, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Schölkopf, B.
Kernel Mean Embedding of Distributions: A Review and Beyond
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, 10(1-2):1-141, 2017 (article)
Tolstikhin, I., Sriperumbudur, B., Muandet, K.
Minimax Estimation of Kernel Mean Embeddings
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(86):1-47, 2017 (article)
Babbar, R., Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B.
TerseSVM : A Scalable Approach for Learning Compact Models in Large-scale Classification
Proceedings of the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pages: 234-242, (Editors: Sanjay Chawla Venkatasubramanian and Wagner Meira), May 2016 (conference)
Muandet, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K., Gretton, A., Schölkopf, B.
Kernel Mean Shrinkage Estimators
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(48):1-41, 2016 (article)
Muandet, K.
From Points to Probability Measures: A Statistical Learning on Distributions with Kernel Mean Embedding
University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 (phdthesis)
Lopez-Paz, D., Muandet, K., Recht, B.
The Randomized Causation Coefficient
Journal of Machine Learning, 16, pages: 2901-2907, 2015 (article)
Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Fukumizu, K., Harmeling, S., Peters, J.
Computing Functions of Random Variables via Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Representations
Statistics and Computing , 25(4):755-766, 2015 (article)
Lopez-Paz, D., Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B., Tolstikhin, I.
Towards a Learning Theory of Cause-Effect Inference
In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 37, pages: 1452–1461, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: F. Bach and D. Blei), JMLR, ICML, 2015 (inproceedings)
Doran, G., Muandet, K., Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B.
A Permutation-Based Kernel Conditional Independence Test
In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2014), pages: 132-141, (Editors: Nevin L. Zhang and Jin Tian), AUAI Press Corvallis, Oregon, UAI2014, 2014 (inproceedings)
Muandet, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Schölkopf, B.
Kernel Mean Estimation via Spectral Filtering
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, pages: 1-9, (Editors: Z. Ghahramani, M. Welling, C. Cortes, N.D. Lawrence and K.Q. Weinberger), Curran Associates, Inc., 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2014 (inproceedings)
Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Wang, Z., Zhou, Z., Persello, C.
Single-Source Domain Adaptation with Target and Conditional Shift
In Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, pages: 427-456, 19, Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, (Editors: Suykens, J. A. K., Signoretto, M. and Argyriou, A.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, USA, 2014 (inbook)
Muandet, K., Fukumizu, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Gretton, A., Schölkopf, B.
Kernel Mean Estimation and Stein Effect
In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 32 (1), pages: 10-18, (Editors: Eric P. Xing and Tony Jebara), JMLR, ICML, 2014 (inproceedings)
Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Wang, Z.
Domain adaptation under Target and Conditional Shift
In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 28 (3), pages: 819–827, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), JMLR, ICML, 2013 (inproceedings)
Muandet, K., Balduzzi, D., Schölkopf, B.
Domain Generalization via Invariant Feature Representation
30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2013), 2013 (poster)
Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B.
One-class Support Measure Machines for Group Anomaly Detection
In Proceedings 29th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), pages: 449-458, (Editors: Ann Nicholson and Padhraic Smyth), AUAI Press, Corvallis, Oregon, UAI, 2013 (inproceedings)
Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B.
One-class Support Measure Machines for Group Anomaly Detection
29th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2013 (poster)
Muandet, K., Balduzzi, D., Schölkopf, B.
Domain Generalization via Invariant Feature Representation
In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 28(1), pages: 10-18, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), JMLR, ICML, 2013, Volume 28, number 1 (inproceedings)
Muandet, K.
Domain Generalization via Invariant Feature Representation
30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2013), 2013 (talk)
Muandet, K.
Support Vector Machines, Support Measure Machines, and Quasar Target Selection
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics (CCPP), New York University, December 2012 (talk)
Muandet, K.
Hilbert Space Embedding for Dirichlet Process Mixtures
NIPS Workshop on Confluence between Kernel Methods and Graphical Models, December 2012 (talk)
Muandet, K.
Support Measure Machines for Quasar Target Selection
Astro Imaging Workshop, 2012 (talk)
Muandet, K., Fukumizu, K., Dinuzzo, F., Schölkopf, B.
Learning from Distributions via Support Measure Machines
26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (poster)
Muandet, K., Fukumizu, K., Dinuzzo, F., Schölkopf, B.
Learning from distributions via support measure machines
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 10-18, (Editors: P Bartlett, FCN Pereira, CJC. Burges, L Bottou, and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)
Muandet, K.
Hilbert space embedding for Dirichlet Process mixtures
In NIPS Workshop on confluence between kernel methods and graphical models, 2012 (inproceedings)