Summary of Candoit: Causal Discovery with Observational and Interventional Data From Time-series, by Luca Castri et al.
CAnDOIT: Causal Discovery with Observational and Interventional Data from Time-Series
by Luca Castri, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed CAnDOIT method uses both observational and interventional time-series data to reconstruct causal models, addressing the challenge of identifying causal relationships in situations with hidden factors. This is particularly important for real-world applications like robotics, where observational data alone may be insufficient. The approach is validated on synthetic models and a robotic manipulation environment benchmark, demonstrating enhanced accuracy when exploiting intervention data. A Python implementation of CAnDOIT is publicly available on GitHub. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Causal relationships are crucial in many fields, including science and robotics. Researchers often struggle to identify these connections using observational data alone. This new method, called CAnDOIT, uses both observational and interventional time-series data to build causal models. This means it can handle real-world complexities like robotic manipulation scenarios. The method has been tested on synthetic data and a popular benchmark for learning causal structures in robotics. Results show that CAnDOIT is effective at identifying causal relationships. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Synthetic data » Time series
