Neuro-Causal Factor Analysis (NCFA) reimagines traditional factor analysis by integrating causal structure learning and deep generative modeling. The method learns a directed graph linking latent and observed variables, then trains a deep generative model that respects the graph’s Markov factorization. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets show NCFA achieves lower reconstruction error than standard FA and better latent distribution recovery than a variational autoencoder, while offering a sparser architecture, reduced complexity, and causal interpretability.
By Alex Markham, Mingyu Liu, Bryon Aragam, Liam Solus
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By Ma{\l}gorzata {\L}az\k{e}cka, Ewa Szczurek
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By Vicente Conde Mendes, Lorenzo Bardone, C\'edric Koller, Jorge Medina Moreira, Vittorio Erba, Emanuele Troiani, Lenka Zdeborov\'a
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By Marco Biroli, Max Welling, Vincenzo Vitelli
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By Gemma E. Moran, Anandi Krishnan
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By Chengrui Li, Yunmiao Wang, Yule Wang, Weihan Li, Dieter Jaeger, Anqi Wu
arXiv:2609.23789v1 Announce Type: new
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By Wenxi Tan, Bing Li, Lingzhou Xue
arXiv:2603.20111v2 Announce Type: replace
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By Moritz G\"ogl, Christopher Yau
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By Gwenol\'e Quellec
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By Arnas Uselis, Andrea Dittadi, Seong Joon Oh
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By Laura M. Montaldo, Ricardo A. Borsoi, Sebastian Miron, Tulay Adali
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By Zhibin Duan, Tiansheng Wen, Yifei Wang, Chen Zhu, Bo Chen, Mingyuan Zhou