Summary of Causal Discovery by Kernel Deviance Measures with Heterogeneous Transforms, By Tim Tse et al.
Causal Discovery by Kernel Deviance Measures with Heterogeneous Transforms
by Tim Tse, Zhitang Chen, Shengyu Zhu, Yue Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers investigate causal discovery techniques that identify relationships between random variables. They argue that existing methods are insufficient in capturing higher-order structural variabilities in conditional distributions, which can help determine causation direction. To address this limitation, they propose a novel approach called Kernel Intrinsic Invariance Measure with Heterogeneous Transform (KIIM-HT), which extracts relevant moments from conditional densities using heterogeneous transformations of RKHS embeddings. The method is evaluated on synthetic and real-world datasets, demonstrating improved performance over previous approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper explores ways to find causes and effects in random variables. Scientists think that existing methods aren’t good enough because they don’t look at the whole picture. They’re proposing a new way to do this called KIIM-HT, which looks at the relationships between variables in a different way. This helps identify which direction something is causing or being caused by. The researchers tested their method on fake and real data and found that it worked better than other approaches. |
