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 …

Learning linear causal representations from interventions under general nonlinear mixing

S Buchholz, G Rajendran… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of learning causal representations from unknown, latent interventions
in a general setting, where the latent distribution is Gaussian but the mixing function is …

Causal deep learning: encouraging impact on real-world problems through causality

J Berrevoets, K Kacprzyk, Z Qian… - … and Trends® in …, 2024 - nowpublishers.com
Causality has the potential to truly transform the way we solve a large number of real-world
problems. Yet, so far, its potential largely remains to be unlocked as causality often requires …

Fast scalable and accurate discovery of dags using the best order score search and grow shrink trees

B Andrews, J Ramsey… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning graphical conditional independence structures is an important machine learning
problem and a cornerstone of causal discovery. However, the accuracy and execution time …

Optimizing NOTEARS objectives via topological swaps

C Deng, K Bello, B Aragam… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Recently, an intriguing class of non-convex optimization problems has emerged in the
context of learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). These problems involve minimizing a …

Global optimality in bivariate gradient-based DAG learning

C Deng, K Bello, P Ravikumar… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, a new class of non-convex optimization problems motivated by the statistical
problem of learning an acyclic directed graphical model from data has attracted significant …

Structure learning with continuous optimization: A sober look and beyond

I Ng, B Huang, K Zhang - Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper investigates in which cases continuous optimization for directed acyclic graph
(DAG) structure learning can and cannot perform well and why this happens, and suggests …

Learning DAGs from data with few root causes

P Misiakos, C Wendler… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present a novel perspective and algorithm for learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)
from data generated by a linear structural equation model (SEM). First, we show that a linear …

Causal Fourier analysis on directed acyclic graphs and posets

B Seifert, C Wendler, M Püschel - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel form of Fourier analysis, and associated signal processing concepts, for
signals (or data) indexed by edge-weighted directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). This means that …

Boosting Differentiable Causal Discovery via Adaptive Sample Reweighting

A Zhang, F Liu, W Ma, Z Cai, X Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Under stringent model type and variable distribution assumptions, differentiable score-
based causal discovery methods learn a directed acyclic graph (DAG) from observational …