Relation-Oriented: Toward Knowledge-Aligned Causal AI

This study examines the inherent limitations of the prevailing Observation-Oriented modeling paradigm by approaching relationship learning from a unique dimensionality perspective. This paradigm necessitates the identification of modeling objects prior to defining relations, confining models to observational space, and limiting their access to temporal features. Relying on a singular, absolute timeline often leads to an oversight of the multi-dimensional nature of the temporal feature space. This oversight compromises model robustness and generalizability, contributing significantly to the AI misalignment issue. Drawing from the relation-centric essence of human cognition, this study presents a new Relation-Oriented paradigm, complemented by its methodological counterpart, the relation-defined representation learning, supported by extensive efficacy experiments.