Summary of Discovering Latent Structural Causal Models From Spatio-temporal Data, by Kun Wang et al.
Discovering Latent Structural Causal Models from Spatio-Temporal Data
by Kun Wang, Sumanth Varambally, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yi-An Ma, Rose Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Nov 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 A novel framework called SPACY is introduced for inferring causal relationships in spatiotemporal gridded data. This type of data is common in fields like climate science, where researchers aim to understand how large-scale events influence global processes. The problem is challenging due to the high dimensionality and correlations between nearby points. SPACY uses variational inference to model latent time-series and their causal relationships from spatially confined modes. It’s an end-to-end training process that maximizes the evidence-lower bound for the data likelihood. Theoretical analysis shows that under certain conditions, the latent variables are identifiable up to transformation by an invertible matrix. Empirically, SPACY outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on synthetic and real-world climate data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SPACY is a new way to find causal relationships in big datasets that have both space and time information. This type of data is important for things like understanding the weather, oceans, and forests. The problem with these datasets is that they are very big and have lots of connections between nearby points. SPACY uses a special method called variational inference to find patterns and relationships in the data. It’s tested on fake data and real climate data and does better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Likelihood » Spatiotemporal » Time series
