Backtests, Causality, And Model Risk In Quantitative Investing

Quantitative finance continues to debate the reliability and limits of model-driven investment strategies. Read more here.
Nature

Causal models for estimating the effects of weight gain on mortality

Suppose, in contrast to the fact, in 1950, we had put the cohort of 18-year-old non-smoking American men on a stringent mandatory diet that guaranteed that no one would ever weigh more than their ...
EurekAlert!

Offline model-based reinforcement learning with causal structured world models

The architecture of FOCUS. Given offline data, FOCUS learns a $p$ value matrix by KCI test and then gets the causal structure by choosing a $p$ threshold. After ...
Yahoo Finance

Causal Labs Raises $6M Seed Funding to Build AI for Weather Prediction and Control

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Causal Labs, the AI company pioneering physics-based models to address civilization-scale challenges, is announcing it has raised $6 million in ...