Causal structure learning: A combinatorial perspective

C Squires, C Uhler - Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2023 - Springer
In this review, we discuss approaches for learning causal structure from data, also called
causal discovery. In particular, we focus on approaches for learning directed acyclic graphs …

Amortized inference for causal structure learning

L Lorch, S Sussex, J Rothfuss… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Inferring causal structure poses a combinatorial search problem that typically involves
evaluating structures with a score or independence test. The resulting search is costly, and …

Introduction to the foundations of causal discovery

F Eberhardt - International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2017 - Springer
This article presents an overview of several known approaches to causal discovery. It is
organized by relating the different fundamental assumptions that the methods depend on …

On the convergence of continuous constrained optimization for structure learning

I Ng, S Lachapelle, NR Ke… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Recently, structure learning of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) has been formulated as a
continuous optimization problem by leveraging an algebraic characterization of acyclicity …

Budgeted experiment design for causal structure learning

AE Ghassami, S Salehkaleybar… - International …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of causal structure learning when the experimenter is limited to
perform at most $ k $ non-adaptive experiments of size $1 $. We formulate the problem of …

Reliable causal discovery with improved exact search and weaker assumptions

I Ng, Y Zheng, J Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Many of the causal discovery methods rely on the faithfulness assumption to guarantee
asymptotic correctness. However, the assumption can be approximately violated in many …

Polynomial-time algorithms for counting and sampling Markov equivalent dags

M Wienöbst, M Bannach, M Liskiewicz - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Counting and uniform sampling of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from a Markov
equivalence class are fundamental tasks in graphical causal analysis. In this paper, we …

Sound and complete causal identification with latent variables given local background knowledge

TZ Wang, T Qin, ZH Zhou - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Great efforts have been devoted to causal discovery from observational data, and it is well
known that introducing some background knowledge attained from experiments or human …

Near-optimal multi-perturbation experimental design for causal structure learning

S Sussex, C Uhler, A Krause - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal structure learning is a key problem in many domains. Causal structures can be learnt
by performing experiments on the system of interest. We address the largely unexplored …

Efficient enumeration of markov equivalent dags

M Wienöbst, M Luttermann, M Bannach… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Enumerating the directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of a Markov equivalence class (MEC) is an
important primitive in causal analysis. The central resource from the perspective of …