openalexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026-07-23
A causal perspective on Machine Learning for concrete quality predictions and data-driven mixture optimization
Thorsten Kalb, Anil Esen, Elsa Qoku, Thomas Matschei, Chiara Masiero, Gian Antonio Susto
Machine Learning (ML) predictions of cement and concrete quality and subsequent data-driven mixture optimization has been advertised for almost three decades. However, supervised ML leverages correlations, not causal relationships. Aiming for hybrid models, we derive the first ca…