arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14
Relaxing Faithfulness with Intervention-Only Causal Discovery
arXiv:2607. 11816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery algorithms learn a network that describes the causal dependencies among random variables.
Identifying Structural Biases from Causal Mechanism Shifts
arXiv:2606. 18834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery methods commonly assume that all data is independently and identically distributed (i.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23
Local Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables and Selection Bias
arXiv:2607. 19866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discovering the direct causes and effects of a target variable from observational data is a fundamental problem in causal discovery, with broad applications in domains such as gene regulatory analysis and biomedical research.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22
Local Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables and Selection Bias
Discovering the direct causes and effects of a target variable from observational data is a fundamental problem in causal discovery, with broad applications in domains such as gene regulatory analysis and biomedical research. Existing causal discovery methods either learn a global causal structure, which incurs substantial computational cost, or assume the absence of latent variables and selection bias, assumptions that are often violated in real-world settings.
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
Beyond Additivity: Causal Discovery in Location-Scale Noise Models with Hidden Variables
arXiv:2606. 08196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study causal discovery from observational data when some variables are hidden and the data-generating process follows a location-scale noise model (LSNM).
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 10
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
Jun 19
Unsupervised Causal Abstractions Discovery
arXiv:2606. 19594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal abstractions formalize when a high-level structural causal model (SCM) captures the interventional behavior of a lower-level SCM.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11
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 AI
Jun 17
FoundCause: Causal Discovery with Latent Confounders from Observational Data
arXiv:2606. 17516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal discovery from observational data remains challenging due to the need to recover directed structure and latent confounding without interventions.
arXiv AI
Sep 7
Beyond Stationarity in Time Series: Discovering Causal Structures and Latent Regimes via Markov Blankets
The paper presents RCBNB-MB, a causal discovery algorithm that relaxes the assumption of a single, time‑consistent causal structure in time series. It identifies latent causal regimes—subsets of time points where a stable causal graph holds—and iteratively segments the series to recover both regime transitions and the corresponding causal graphs using Markov blankets. The authors provide theoretical guarantees and demonstrate through simulations and real IT monitoring data that RCBNB-MB outperforms baseline methods in detecting regime changes and their causal structures.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22
Decoupled Causal Discovery
arXiv:2609.23535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery from observational data is a fundamental yet challenging task in scientific research. While existing approaches are primarily based on...
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23
Concept Drift from a Causal Perspective
The paper introduces a causal framework for concept drift, using Structural Causal Models to classify drift events by their causal origin—exogenous variables, endogenous mechanisms, confounders, and target-generating processes. It presents an SCM-based data stream generator that simulates controlled mechanism-level drift, and empirically shows that different causal origins produce distinct distribution shifts and predictive behaviors. By integrating causal discovery, the authors create realistic data streams that improve downstream performance and provide a foundation for causally-aware evaluation in non‑stationary settings.