Causal Representation Learning for Trustworthy Industrial Process Modeling

Liang Cao; Fan Yang; Youqing Wang

doi:10.1109/JAS.2025.125678

Volume 13 Issue 7

Jul. 2026

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

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L. Cao, F. Yang, and Y. Wang, “Causal representation learning for trustworthy industrial process modeling,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 1758–1760, Jul. 2026. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125678

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L. Cao, F. Yang, and Y. Wang, “Causal representation learning for trustworthy industrial process modeling,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 1758–1760, Jul. 2026. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125678

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