Summary of Efficient Identification Of Direct Causal Parents Via Invariance and Minimum Error Testing, by Minh Nguyen et al.
Efficient Identification of Direct Causal Parents via Invariance and Minimum Error Testing
by Minh Nguyen, Mert R. Sabuncu
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research proposes two new approaches, MMSE-ICP and fastICP, to address the limitations of Invariant Causal Prediction (ICP) for finding causal parents. ICP is a popular method that relies on distribution shifts and invariance testing, but it becomes impractical for large-scale problems due to its exponential time complexity and inability to identify parents when only a few variables are affected. The proposed methods employ an error inequality to ensure identifiability and achieve state-of-the-art results on both simulated and real-world data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary ICP is a technique that helps find the direct causes of something, but it’s not very good for big problems because it takes too long and can’t handle small changes in some variables. This paper proposes two new ways to make ICP better: MMSE-ICP and fastICP. These methods use an equation to make sure they’re doing things correctly and also try to run fewer tests to make them faster. |
