On the identifiability of nonlinear ICA: Sparsity and beyond

Y Zheng, I Ng, K Zhang - Advances in neural information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) aims to recover the underlying
independent latent sources from their observable nonlinear mixtures. How to make the …

Greedy relaxations of the sparsest permutation algorithm

WY Lam, B Andrews, J Ramsey - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
There has been an increasing interest in methods that exploit permutation reasoning to
search for directed acyclic causal models, including the “Ordering Search''of Teyssier and …

Fast scalable and accurate discovery of dags using the best order score search and grow shrink trees

B Andrews, J Ramsey… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning graphical conditional independence structures is an important machine learning
problem and a cornerstone of causal discovery. However, the accuracy and execution time …

Learning directed acyclic graph models based on sparsest permutations

G Raskutti, C Uhler - Stat, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We consider the problem of learning a Bayesian network or directed acyclic graph model
from observational data. A number of constraint‐based, score‐based and hybrid algorithms …

[HTML][HTML] Causal models

C Hitchcock - 2018 - plato.stanford.edu
Causal models are mathematical models representing causal relationships within an
individual system or population. They facilitate inferences about causal relationships from …

Disentangling causality: assumptions in causal discovery and inference

MC Vonk, N Malekovic, T Bäck… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2023 - Springer
Causality has been a burgeoning field of research leading to the point where the literature
abounds with different components addressing distinct parts of causality. For researchers, it …

The three faces of faithfulness

J Zhang, P Spirtes - Synthese, 2016 - Springer
In the causal inference framework of Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines (SGS), inferences
about causal relationships are made from samples from probability distributions and a …

Faithfulness, coordination and causal coincidences

N Weinberger - Erkenntnis, 2018 - Springer
Within the causal modeling literature, debates about the Causal Faithfulness Condition
(CFC) have concerned whether it is probable that the parameters in causal models will have …

The frugal inference of causal relations

M Forster, G Raskutti, R Stern… - The British Journal for …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Recent approaches to causal modelling rely upon the causal Markov condition, which
specifies which probability distributions are compatible with a directed acyclic graph (DAG) …

A weaker faithfulness assumption based on triple interactions

A Marx, A Gretton, JM Mooij - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
One of the core assumptions in causal discovery is the faithfulness assumption—ie
assuming that independencies found in the data are due to separations in the true causal …