Discovering causal relations and equations from data

G Camps-Valls, A Gerhardus, U Ninad, G Varando… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Physics is a field of science that has traditionally used the scientific method to answer
questions about why natural phenomena occur and to make testable models that explain the …

Causal discovery from temporal data: An overview and new perspectives

C Gong, C Zhang, D Yao, J Bi, W Li, YJ Xu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Temporal data, representing chronological observations of complex systems, has always
been a typical data structure that can be widely generated by many domains, such as …

CausalTime: Realistically Generated Time-series for Benchmarking of Causal Discovery

Y Cheng, Z Wang, T **ao, Q Zhong, J Suo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Time-series causal discovery (TSCD) is a fundamental problem of machine learning.
However, existing synthetic datasets cannot properly evaluate or predict the algorithms' …

MECD: Unlocking multi-event causal discovery in video reasoning

T Chen, H Liu, T He, Y Chen, C Gan, X Ma… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of video content from a
causal perspective. However, current video reasoning tasks are limited in scope, primarily …

Incorporating structural constraints into continuous optimization for causal discovery

Z Wang, X Gao, X Liu, X Ru, Q Zhang - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) provide an efficient framework to describe the
causal relations in actual applications, and it appears more and more important to learn a …

A Review and Roadmap of Deep Causal Model from Different Causal Structures and Representations

H Chen, K Du, C Li, X Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.00923, 2023 - arxiv.org
The fusion of causal models with deep learning introducing increasingly intricate data sets,
such as the causal associations within images or between textual components, has surfaced …

Why Online Reinforcement Learning is Causal

O Schulte, P Poupart - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.04221, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) and causal modelling naturally complement each other. The
goal of causal modelling is to predict the effects of interventions in an environment, while the …

Causal Discovery by Continuous Optimization with Conditional Independence Constraint: Methodology and Performance

Y **a, H Zhang, Y Ren, J Guan… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discovering causal relationships from observational data is a challenging topic in artificial
intelligence. Recent works formulate causal discovery as a continuous optimization problem …

Learning DAGs and Root Causes from Time-Series Data

P Misiakos, M Püschel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.03130, 2025 - arxiv.org
We introduce DAG-TFRC, a novel method for learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from
time series with few root causes. By this, we mean that the data are generated by a small …

Jacobian Regularizer-based Neural Granger Causality

W Zhou, S Bai, S Yu, Q Zhao, B Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.08779, 2024 - arxiv.org
With the advancement of neural networks, diverse methods for neural Granger causality
have emerged, which demonstrate proficiency in handling complex data, and nonlinear …