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Sean H. Murphy
dblp:389/8709
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
causal reasoning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Identifying biological perturbation targets through causal differential networks · ICML 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › single-cell analysis
single-cell transcriptomics |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Identifying biological perturbation targets through causal differential networks · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
graph neural network · 1.7causal discovery · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Identifying biological perturbation targets through causal differential networksabstractIdentifying variables responsible for changes to a biological system enables applications in drug target discovery and cell engineering. Given a pair of observational and interventional datasets, the goal is to isolate the subset of observed variables that were the targets of the intervention. Directly applying causal discovery algorithms is challenging: the data may contain thousands of variables with as few as tens of samples per intervention, and biological systems do not adhere to classical causality assumptions. We propose a causality-inspired approach to address this practical setting. First, we infer noisy causal graphs from the observational and interventional data. Then, we learn to map the differences between these graphs, along with additional statistical features, to sets of variables that were intervened upon. Both modules are jointly trained in a supervised framework, on simulated and real data that reflect the nature of biological interventions. This approach consistently outperforms baselines for perturbation modeling on seven single-cell transcriptomics datasets. We also demonstrate significant improvements over current causal discovery methods for predicting soft and hard intervention targets across a variety of synthetic data. Menghua Wu, Umesh Padia, Sean H. Murphy, Regina Barzilay, Tommi S. Jaakkola |
ICML | 3 |