arXiv AI By Avni Rajpal, Anubhav Kumar, Rishabh Karnad, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, P. K. Srijith

Joint Causal Structure and Cluster Discovery Using Variational Inference

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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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