Summary of Identifying Causal Effects Under Functional Dependencies, by Yizuo Chen and Adnan Darwiche
Identifying Causal Effects Under Functional Dependencies
by Yizuo Chen, Adnan Darwiche
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Symbolic Computation (cs.SC); Methodology (stat.ME)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates methods to identify causal effects in causal graphs, where some variables are functionally determined by their parents. Two main improvements are discussed: first, an unidentifiable causal effect can become identifiable if certain variables are functional; second, functional variables can be excluded from observation without affecting identifiability. These advancements rely on an elimination procedure that removes functional variables while preserving key properties in the resulting graph, including causal effect identifiability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper studies how to figure out what causes what in complex systems. It looks at ways to make it easier to identify these causes by using information about which variables are related to each other. Two important discoveries are made: sometimes things that can’t be figured out become clear if we know more about the relationships between variables, and sometimes we can safely ignore certain variables without changing our ability to figure out what causes what. |
