arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14
Integrating Background Knowledge for Scalable Causal Discovery
arXiv:2607. 10456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expert background knowledge is often available in practical applications of causal discovery.
Cluster-Dags as Powerful Background Knowledge For Causal Discovery
The paper introduces Cluster-DAGs as a flexible prior knowledge framework to improve causal discovery. It presents two modified constraint‑based algorithms, Cluster‑PC and Cluster‑FCI, tailored for fully and partially observed data. Experiments on simulated data show that these methods outperform baseline algorithms that lack prior knowledge.
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From Local to Cluster: A Unified Framework for Causal Discovery with Latent Variables
arXiv:2604. 22416v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Latent variables pose a fundamental obstacle to both causal discovery and inference.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14
DAG-FM: A Foundation Model for Causal Discovery under Heterogeneous Causal Mechanisms
arXiv:2607. 11510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery from observational tabular data remains fundamentally challenging, primarily due to the heterogeneity of underlying causal mechanisms and the high-dimensional combinatorial search space of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs).
arXiv Machine Learning
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CausalArena: Benchmarking Causal Discovery in the Foundation Model Era
CausalArena is a new benchmark designed to evaluate causal discovery methods in the era of foundation models. It unifies synthetic structural causal models (SCMs), semantically grounded SCMs, and formula‑grounded SCMs, while also including real‑world datasets for external validation. Experiments show that performance rankings vary widely across different SCM families and protocols, indicating that strong results on one benchmark do not necessarily transfer to others.
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9
Score-Based Learning of Cluster DAGs from Interventions
The paper introduces COARSE, a score‑based method for learning cluster directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from interventional data. COARSE retains the two‑phase structure of prior constraint‑based approaches—first identifying clusters, then edges—but replaces the edge‑learning phase with a score‑based local search under a cluster‑level BIC score, assuming linear Gaussian relationships. The authors prove polynomial‑time complexity and consistency (given correct intervention targets) and demonstrate that COARSE achieves comparable edge recovery to state‑of‑the‑art methods while being up to two orders of magnitude faster, even on dense graphs with hundreds of nodes.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
CDFM: Towards a General-Purpose Causal Discovery Foundation Model
arXiv:2607. 11508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal discovery, the process of recovering underlying causal structures from observational data, is a fundamental pursuit across scientific disciplines.
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CausalArena: Benchmarking Causal Discovery in the Foundation Model Era
CausalArena is a unified, evolvable benchmark designed to evaluate causal discovery methods across diverse structural causal models (SCMs). It incorporates synthetic SCMs for controlled structural variation, semantic operational SCMs for human-auditable environments, and formula-grounded SCMs to test discovery under explicit scientific mechanisms, along with real-world datasets for external validity. Experiments show that performance rankings vary significantly across SCM families and protocols, indicating that strong results on one benchmark do not generalize to others, especially in the context of causal discovery foundation models.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
Knowledge-Informed Local Causal Discovery of Optimal Adjustment Sets
arXiv:2607. 04447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local causal discovery is a scalable alternative to global structure learning.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
Implicit Causal Graph Construction in Text via Chain Discovery
arXiv:2606. 07525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal graphs in text are typically populated by observable, predefined events.
arXiv AI
Aug 14
Interpretable Causal Discovery via Causal-Effect Constraints
arXiv:2608. 12640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal discovery aims to uncover the underlying causal relationships given data generated from a system.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
GENESIS: Towards Explainable Causal Discovery
arXiv:2608. 03868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal Discovery (CD) from observational data faces two fundamental challenges.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
CaSPECT: Discovering Causally Homogeneous Subgroups via Directed Spectral Clustering
arXiv:2607. 03364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose \textbf{CaSPECT}, a causal spectral clustering framework for discovering causally homogeneous subgroups from observational data.