Papers

Notes: * stands for equal contributions; $^\dagger$ stands for students that I mentored.

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A Community Machine Learning Challenge to Predict the Effects of Gene Perturbations on T Cell Differentiation for Cancer Immunotherapy
Jiaqi Zhang, Marc Schwartz, Orr Ashenberg, Mohammed Mutaher, Oluwatomisin Olajide, …, Yuri Pritykin, Nir Hacohen*, Caroline Uhler*.
[available upon request]

MORPH Predicts the Single-cell Outcome of Genetic Perturbations across Various Data Modalities
Chujun He*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Munther Dahleh, Caroline Uhler.
[bioRxiv] [code] [bibtex]

Faithfulness and Intervention-Only Causal Discovery
Bijan Mazaheri, Jiaqi Zhang, Caroline Uhler.
[workshop]

Meta-Dependence in Conditional Independence Testing
Bijan Mazaheri, Jiaqi Zhang, Caroline Uhler.
[arXiv] [code] [bibtex]

Publications

On the Number of Conditional Indepdence Tests in Constraint-based Causal Discovery
Marc Franquesa Monés$^\dagger$*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Caroline Uhler. AISTATS (Spotlight Presentation, <3%), 2026.
[conference to appear] [available upon request]

Learning Genetic Perturbation Effects with Variational Causal Inference
Emily Liu$^\dagger$*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Caroline Uhler. PLOS Computational Biology, 2026.
[journal to appear] [bioRxiv] [code] [bibtex]

Causal Structure and Representation Learning with Biomedical Applications
Caroline Uhler*, Jiaqi Zhang*. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 2026.
[conference to appear] [arXiv] [bibtex]

Can Diffusion Models Disentangle? A Theoretical Perspective
Liming Wang, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Yishu Gong, Yuan Gong, Jiaqi Zhang, Brian H. Tracey, Katerina Placek, Marco Vilela, James R. Glass. NeurIPS, 2025.
[arXiv] [conference] [bibtex]

Probabilistic Factorial Experimental Design for Combinatorial Interventions
Divyal Shyamal$^\dagger$*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Caroline Uhler. ICML (Spotlight, < 2.6%), 2025.
[arXiv] [conference] [bibtex]

Identifiabiltiy Guarantees of Causal Disentanglement from Purely Observational Data
Ryan Welch$^\dagger$*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Caroline Uhler. NeurIPS, 2024.
[arXiv] [code] [conference] [bibtex]

Causal Discovery with Fewer Conditional Independence Tests
Kirankumar Shiragur*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Caroline Uhler. ICML, 2024.
[arXiv] [code] [bibtex]

Towards Causal Foundation Model: on Duality between Causal Inference and Attention
Jiaqi Zhang*, Joel Jennings, Agrin Hilmkil, Nick Pawlowski, Cheng Zhang, Chao Ma*. ICML, 2024.
[arXiv] [code] [bibtex]

Membership Testing in Markov Equivalence Classes via Independence Query Oracles
Jiaqi Zhang*, Kirankumar Shiragur*, Caroline Uhler. AISTATS (Oral Presentation, <3%), 2024.
[arXiv] [conference] [bibtex]

Meek Separators and Their Applications in Targeted Causal Discovery
Kirankumar Shiragur*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Caroline Uhler. NeurIPS, 2023.
[arXiv] [code] [conference] [bibtex]

Identifiability Guarantees for Causal Disentanglement from Soft Interventions
Jiaqi Zhang, Kristjan Greenewald, Chandler Squires, Akash Srivastava, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Caroline Uhler. NeurIPS, 2023.
[arXiv] [code] [conference] [bibtex]

Active Learning for Optimal Intervention Design in Causal Models
Jiaqi Zhang, Louis Cammarata, Chandler Squires, Themistoklis P Sapsis, Caroline Uhler. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023.
[arXiv] [code] [journal] [bibtex]

Machine-learning-optimized Cas12a Barcoding Enables the Recovery of Single-cell Lineages and Transcriptional Profiles
Nicholas W Hughes, Yuanhao Qu*, Jiaqi Zhang*, Weijing Tang*, Justin Pierce*, Chengkun Wang, Aditi Agrawal, Maurizio Morri, Norma Neff, Monte M Winslow, Mengdi Wang, Le Cong. Molecular Cell, 2022.
[code] [journal] [bibtex]

Stochastic Augmented Projected Gradient Methods for the Large-Scale Precoding Matrix Indicator Selection Problem
Jiaqi Zhang, Zeyu Jin, Bo Jiang, Zaiwen Wen. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022.
[journal] [bibtex]

Matching a Desired Causal State via Shift Interventions
Jiaqi Zhang, Chandler Squires, Caroline Uhler. NeurIPS, 2021.
[arXiv] [code] [conference] [bibtex]