Provable Guarantees and Efficient Learning of Structural Equation Models with Latent Confounders
arXiv:2609. 18535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery aims to recover causal relationships from observed data.
arXiv:2609. 18535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery aims to recover causal relationships from observed data.
arXiv:2607. 18209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper considers a multi-environment factor model in which high-dimensional covariates are collected from heterogeneous environments, with auxiliary labels available in a subset of these environments.
arXiv:2607. 14940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study causal inference under outcome interference for sequential, observational settings.
arXiv:2607. 04133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery with nonlinear mechanisms and latent confounders remains challenging.
The paper introduces a method for learning causal structures in linear Gaussian models that may contain directed cycles and an unknown number of latent confounders, bounded by a maximum. It derives the covariance of observed variables, defines marginal quasi-equivalence to identify when different models produce the same observational distributions, and formulates structure learning as a minimization of Gaussian negative log-likelihood with a complexity penalty counting edges and latent variables. Using Bernoulli gates to parameterize edge and latent inclusion, the authors obtain a closed‑form differentiable objective whose expected value shares the same global optimum as the discrete problem, and demonstrate experimentally that this approach yields lower recovery error than prior methods.
arXiv:2608.28991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal representation learning (CRL) aims to recover latent causal variables and their structural relations from high-dimensional observations. Exist...
arXiv:2609.40051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating causal effects from observational data is central to science and policy, but the effects are not identified when confounders are unmeasured....
This paper considers a multi-environment factor model in which high-dimensional covariates are collected from heterogeneous environments, with auxiliary labels available in a subset of these environments. The joint distribution of the covariates may vary across environments, whereas the latent structure is decomposed into invariant factors with shared loadings and heterogeneous factors with environment-specific loadings.
arXiv:2601.01368v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Score-based causal discovery in the presence of unobserved confounders requires both a consistent scoring criterion and an efficient search over gr...
arXiv:2608. 16245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disentangled representation learning seeks latent representations whose indicidual dimensions each align with a distinct covariate.
arXiv:2607. 18883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central aim of unsupervised learning is to uncover latent factors that explain dependencies among observations.
arXiv:2502.20115v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal discovery is a difficult problem that typically relies on strong assumptions on the data-generating model, such as non-Gaussianity. In pract...