We introduce interactive structure discovery, a generic framework that encompasses many interactive learning settings, including active learning, top-k item identification, interactive drug discovery, and others. We adapt a recently developed active learning algorithm of Tosh and Dasgupta (2017) for interactive structu…
Differentiable causal discovery methods perform robustly under model violations.
problem Causal discovery algorithms struggle with real-world data due to unverifiable causal assumptions.
method Benchmarked differentiable causal discovery methods under eight model assumption violations.
result Differentiable causal discovery methods exhibit robust performance under Structural Hamming Distance and Structural Intervention Distance metrics.
Paper discovers structural dynamics equations from only acceleration data.
problem Discovering equations from only acceleration measurements in structural dynamics.
method Library-based approach with Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) prioritizing parsimonious models.
result Efficacy demonstrated in four structural dynamics examples, including linear and nonlinear systems.
New method improves causal structure discovery with Prior-Fitted Networks.
problem Errors in likelihood estimation limit proper causal structure discovery.
method Amortized causal discovery with Prior-Fitted Networks.
result Significant gains in structure recovery compared to baselines.
Finite resources limit false discovery rate control in structured hypothesis spaces.
problem Controlling false discovery rate in hypothesis testing with finite data and structured hypothesis spaces.
method Framework for exact FDR control and adaptive power maximization.
result Exact FDR control and adaptive power maximization.
New framework uses background knowledge to speed up causal discovery.
problem Scalable causal discovery for large datasets.
method Utilizes background knowledge during causal discovery process.
result Background knowledge reduces computational requirements and improves structure quality.
Interpretable framework evaluates structure learning methods for causal discovery from observational data.
problem Evaluation of structure learning methods under assumption violations in causal discovery.
method Six-dimensional evaluation metric (DOS) tailored for causal discovery.
result Amortized causal discovery delivers results with high proximity to the optimal solution.
New methods discover causal relationships from multiple related data views.
problem Causal discovery from non-Gaussian data.
method Multi-view linear Structural Equation Model (SEM) with weak assumptions.
result Identifiability of acyclic SEMs and successful causal graph estimation.
Proposes supervised method for whole DAG causal structure learning.
problem Learning causal directions from data, especially for whole DAG structure.
method Supervised learning approach using permutation equivariant models.
result Promising results compared to previous approaches on synthetic and real data.
Survey on discovering causal relationships from data.
problem Discover causal relationships from data.
method Modern, continuous optimization methods for structure learning.
result Survey of methods and resources for structure discovery.
Extends linear structural causal models to include deterministic relations and latent confounders for causal discovery.
problem Causal discovery in linear SCMs with deterministic relations and latent confounders.
method Extended existing results to include deterministic relations and latent confounders, derived necessary and sufficient conditions for unique identifiability, proposed an algorithm for recovery.
result First work on identifiability results for causal discovery under latent confounding and deterministic relationships.
CardiGraphormer uses SSL and GNNs to improve drug discovery.
problem Challenges in drug discovery due to combinatorial chemical space and limited approved drugs.
method Combines self-supervised learning, Graph Neural Networks, and Cardinality Preserving Attention.
result Enhanced predictive performance and interpretability in drug discovery.
Optimizes intervention design for causal discovery using integer programming.
problem Identifying causal structures from observational data due to confounding variables.
method Uses integer programming to design minimal intervention sets for causal structure identifiability.
result Provides exact and modular solutions adaptable to various experimental settings and constraints.
b-LOAD extends local causal discovery with prior knowledge, improving causal effect estimation.
problem Local causal discovery struggles in data-scarce settings due to uncertainty and incomplete neighborhoods.
method b-LOAD incorporates prior knowledge directly into local structure learning, using Meek's rules to refine discovery.
result b-LOAD refines the admissible equivalence class and enlarges identifiable causal queries, improving causal effect estimation.
New framework learns complex AI attitudes from heterogeneous data.
problem Heterogeneous ordinal structure in AI attitudes, poorly captured by existing methods.
method Monotone Gaussian score embedding, BNP complexity discovery, confirmatory fixed-K estimation.
result Reduced holdout MSE by 25.8% over single-graph baseline.
Proposes ENVAR for causal discovery in structural VAR models with equal noise variance.
problem Challenges in causal discovery from multivariate time series with contemporaneous effects.
method Introduces observational equivalence and the observational alignment discrepancy for structural VAR models with equal noise variance.
result Shows that multiple structural VAR parameterizations can induce the same stationary observed process law.
Meta-learning improves Bayesian causal discovery by sampling from the posterior.
problem Difficulty in estimating the full posterior over causal structures due to large number of possible graphs and functional relationships.
method Proposes a Bayesian meta-learning model that encodes key properties of the posterior and allows for sampling causal structures.
result Meta-Bayesian causal discovery allows for reliable sampling from the posterior over causal structures.
New method controls false discoveries in structured hypothesis spaces.
problem Controlling false discoveries in large-scale, interconnected hypothesis spaces.
method Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) optimization for structured FDR control.
result Unified framework for continuous domains, graphs, and hierarchies.
New method identifies causal structure in exchangeable data.
problem Existing causal discovery methods struggle with i.i.d. data.
method Exchangeable data provides richer conditional independence structure.
result Exchangeable data allows for unique causal structure identification.
CDFM aims to unify causal discovery across diverse datasets.
problem Fragmented, test-driven causal discovery approaches struggle with modern data heterogeneity.
method CDFM is a unified, general-purpose framework using a variational decomposition of causal mechanisms.
result CDFM outperforms traditional algorithms across diverse datasets.
Neural causal discovery methods fail to accurately uncover causal structures due to the faithfulness property.
problem Accuracy in neural causal discovery is limited, especially when distinguishing between existing and non-existing causal relationships.
method Systematic evaluation of neural causal discovery methods, focusing on their performance in finite sample regimes and their ability to recover ground-truth graphs.
result Neural networks lack the precision to reliably recover ground-truth causal graphs, even for small graphs and large sample sizes.
Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized as probabilistic inference about the right structural form --- where form could be a tree, ring, chain, grid, etc. [Kemp & Tenenbaum (2008…
Paper relaxes faithfulness assumption for causal discovery using interventions.
problem Violation of faithfulness assumption in natural systems leads to incorrect causal structure identification.
method Use intervention-immediacy faithfulness assumption to identify causal structures with hard interventions.
result Interventions contain information about causal structure that can identify causal structures when faithfulness is violated.
Bayesian network structure learning algorithms with limited data are being used in domains such as systems biology and neuroscience to gain insight into the underlying processes that produce observed data. Learning reliable networks from limited data is difficult, therefore transfer learning can improve the robustness …
FoundCause: Causal Discovery with Latent Confounders from Observational Data
problem Causal discovery from observational data
method FoundCause, an amortized causal discovery model trained on synthetic data
result FoundCause outperforms classical and amortized methods on real-world datasets
GIT uses gradient estimators to target interventions for causal discovery.
problem Challenges in inferring causal structure from observational data.
method GIT uses gradient estimators to target interventions for causal discovery.
result GIT performs on par with competitive baselines, surpassing them in low-data regimes.
New algorithm improves causal discovery in biomedical data.
problem Stability and accuracy issues in causal discovery algorithms.
method Exploits temporal structure and tiered background knowledge.
result Increases accuracy in finite samples for causal structure estimation.
Python toolbox for causal structure learning from data.
problem Causal structure learning from data.
method Generates data from simulators or real-world datasets, learns causal structure, evaluates graphs, and includes gradient-based methods.
result Convenience and efficiency in causal discovery with GPU acceleration.
This thesis relaxes assumptions for causal discovery, making methods applicable to more complex systems.
problem Learning causal structures from observational data with latent variables.
method Alternative definition of k-Triangle Faithfulness for non-Gaussian distributions and uniform consistency proof.
result Uniform consistency of causal discovery algorithm under modified faithfulness assumption.
Existing methods for structure discovery in time series data construct interpretable, compositional kernels for Gaussian process regression models. While the learned Gaussian process model provides posterior mean and variance estimates, typically the structure is learned via a greedy optimization procedure. This restri…
New method identifies nonstationary causal structures in time series data.
problem Identifying causal relationships in time series data that change over time.
method High-order Markov Switching Models for regime-dependent causal discovery.
result Scalable approach for estimating high-order regime-dependent causal structures.
Paper presents a new dataset for testing causal discovery methods in industrial systems.
problem Lack of real-world datasets for evaluating causal discovery methods on time series data.
method Develops a dataset from an industrial system and its known causal graph.
result Provides a benchmark for evaluating causal discovery methods in complex systems.
A model learns causal representations from high-dimensional data.
problem Challenges in learning causal representations from high-dimensional data.
method Formulated a latent variable decoder model, Decoder BCD, for Bayesian causal discovery.
result Shows that using known intervention targets as labels helps in unsupervised Bayesian inference over structure and parameters.
ASCEND discovers causal relationships in multi-omics data by leveraging known hierarchical structure.
problem Causal inference in high-dimensional multi-omics data, especially when ignoring the hierarchical structure.
method Two-tiered divide-and-conquer strategy with ancestral conditioning sets.
result Achieves polynomial-time complexity and accurately recovers ancestral relationships.
New method uniquely identifies causal structure from ordinal data.
problem Challenges in causal discovery for categorical data, especially direction of relationships.
method Exploits ordinal information to uniquely identify causal structure.
result Favorable and robust performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
FLOP algorithm speeds up causal structure learning for linear models.
problem Efficiently learning causal structures from discrete data.
method FLOP algorithm combines fast parent selection and iterative score updates.
result FLOP finds highly accurate causal structures with near-perfect recovery.
New method controls false discoveries in financial asset pricing.
problem Controlling false discoveries in time series with unknown correlations.
method Double bootstrapping method to control false discovery rate.
result Superior statistical power and controlled false discovery rate.
Information theoretic measures (e.g. the Kullback Liebler divergence and Shannon mutual information) have been used for exploring possibly nonlinear multivariate dependencies in high dimension. If these dependencies are assumed to follow a Markov factor graph model, this exploration process is called structure discover…
In this paper we present a comprehensive view of prominent causal discovery algorithms, categorized into two main categories (1) assuming acyclic and no latent variables, and (2) allowing both cycles and latent variables, along with experimental results comparing them from three perspectives: (a) structural accuracy, (…
New method discovers causal relationships in sparse linear data.
problem Discovering cause-effect relationships in sparse linear data.
method Uses structural matrix to reconstruct data and identify causal structures without independence tests.
result Outperforms existing methods in sparse causal structure recovery.
Despite its importance, choosing the structural form of the kernel in nonparametric regression remains a black art. We define a space of kernel structures which are built compositionally by adding and multiplying a small number of base kernels. We present a method for searching over this space of structures which mirro…
DiCoLa recursively decomposes causal structure learning for latent variables.
problem Learning causal structures in high-dimensional settings with latent variables.
method Recursive decomposition framework for divide-and-conquer causal discovery.
result Theoretical soundness and completeness of DiCoLa framework.
New method for causal discovery in high dimensions with confounder blanket assumption.
problem Inferring causal relationships from observational data in high dimensions.
method Relaxes parametric restrictions and sparsity constraints, focusing on confounder blanket.
result Provable sound and complete structure learning algorithm with finite sample error control.
A test for sparsity in Bayesian networks helps choose algorithms.
problem Selecting appropriate structure discovery algorithms for Bayesian networks.
method Developed a hypothesis test using the largest eigenvalue of the normalized inverse covariance matrix.
result The hypothesis test can determine if a BN has max in-degree greater than 1.
Investment strategy developed using causal discovery algorithms in equity markets.
problem Lack of actionable causal relationships in large equity markets.
method Causal discovery algorithms applied to equity market data.
result Causal discovery algorithms can uncover actionable causal relationships in equity markets, leading to profitable investment outcomes.
The paper argues for prioritizing identifying structure over complex models for scientific discovery.
problem Underdetermination of mechanisms in high-dimensional data, leading to unreliable explanations.
method Proposes concrete standards for 'mechanistic ML' to avoid collapsing explanations.
result Large language models (LLMs) can collapse large equivalence classes of explanations, making it hard to distinguish between mechanisms.
Proposes DCNAR for dynamic causal inference from neural time series.
problem Uncertainty and evolution of causal structure in real-world domains.
method Two-stage neural causal modeling integrating discovery and inference.
result Dynamic causal inferences are more stable and meaningful than alternatives.
Improved causal discovery methods for large graphs without strict assumptions.
problem Sub-optimal solutions due to faithfulness assumption violations.
method Super-structure estimation and local search strategies.
result The proposed method scales to hundreds of nodes with high accuracy.