Summary of Sample, Estimate, Aggregate: a Recipe For Causal Discovery Foundation Models, by Menghua Wu et al.
Sample, estimate, aggregate: A recipe for causal discovery foundation models
by Menghua Wu, Yujia Bao, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 addresses a critical challenge in causal discovery: developing algorithms that can accurately infer causal relationships from data when dealing with larger sets of variables. Classical methods often struggle with misspecification or limited data, leading to brittle performance. The authors propose a novel approach by training a supervised model to predict a larger causal graph from the outputs of classical methods run over subsets of variables, leveraging statistical hints like inverse covariance. This approach is theoretically well-specified and can recover a causal graph consistent with graphs over subsets. Empirical experiments demonstrate that this model maintains high accuracy in the face of misspecification or distribution shift, and can be adapted to different discovery algorithms or statistics at low cost. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to figure out why certain things happen in the world. This paper helps solve a big problem in making those kinds of discoveries: when we have too many variables to consider. Right now, our current methods often fail because they’re not designed for larger sets of data. The authors came up with an innovative idea: train a special model that takes the results from smaller datasets and combines them to make predictions about bigger datasets. This approach works well even if some of those small datasets are wrong or have missing information. The researchers tested their method using real and fake data and showed that it can be very accurate, even when faced with tricky situations. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Supervised
