Summary of Graph-based Complexity For Causal Effect by Empirical Plug-in, By Rina Dechter and Annie Raichev and Alexander Ihler and Jin Tian
Graph-based Complexity for Causal Effect by Empirical Plug-in
by Rina Dechter, Annie Raichev, Alexander Ihler, Jin Tian
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates the computational complexity of estimating causal effects from observational data using empirical plug-in estimates. The study focuses on identifying efficient evaluation strategies for causal queries given a causal graph and observational data. The authors show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, high-dimensional probabilistic functions do not necessarily lead to exponential evaluation times. Instead, they propose an approach that can be computed efficiently in linear time with respect to the data size, depending on the hypergraph structure of the estimand. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper explores a new way to estimate the effects of causes from observational data. The authors want to know how fast it is possible to compute these estimates when you have a lot of data and complex relationships between variables. They found that despite what many people thought, the computation time does not grow exponentially with the size of the data. Instead, they developed an efficient method that can be used in practice. |
