arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
Structure Learning on Clustered Data
arXiv:2607. 08238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent algorithmic advances have made directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure learning scalable for causal discovery.
Joint Causal Structure and Cluster Discovery Using Variational Inference
The paper introduces a variational inference framework that jointly discovers latent clusters of variables and the causal relationships among those clusters. It models clusters with categorical distributions and graph structures with Bernoulli distributions, deriving variational lower bounds and estimation techniques for learning both cluster assignments and causal links. The method’s effectiveness is shown on synthetic and real datasets.
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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 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.
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Causal Discovery beyond Conditional Independence: Identifiability, Algorithms, and Statistical Inference for Directed Acyclic and Cyclic Graphs
arXiv:2610.23543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning causal structure from data requires assumptions about mechanisms, noises, observation schemes, and interventions. Historically, causal disco...
arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 25
Neuro-Causal Factor Analysis
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.
arXiv AI
Aug 6
SVI-DAG: A Structured Variational Inference Approach to Bayesian Causal Discovery
arXiv:2608. 04930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian causal discovery seeks to determine the posterior distribution of causal theories, which are interpreted as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that explain the observed data.
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 Machine Learning
Jun 5
Causal Atlases from Entropic Inference: Bayesian Networks beyond Optimal DAGs
arXiv:2606. 06440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven causal relationship identification is pertinent to advancing understanding of complex systems both within and beyond science.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22
Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounding: A Mixture Learning Perspective
The paper introduces a mixture‑learning framework for causal inference with unobserved confounding, treating latent confounders as sources of heterogeneity that create mixture structures in observed data. By assuming suitable structural and identifiability conditions, it shows that recovering the mixing distribution and component mechanisms allows estimation of interventional distributions and causal estimands. The authors illustrate the approach with Bernoulli mixture examples, extend it to high‑dimensional exponential‑family mixtures with dependent outcomes, and relate it to panel‑data settings, latent factor models, and synthetic interventions.
arXiv AI
Jul 22
RAMP: Recognition parametrisation by Amortised Message Passing
arXiv:2607. 18883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central aim of unsupervised learning is to uncover latent factors that explain dependencies among observations.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10
Differentiable Causal Discovery for Singular Linear Models under Confounding
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 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.