Summary of Learning Flexible Time-windowed Granger Causality Integrating Heterogeneous Interventional Time Series Data, by Ziyi Zhang et al.
Learning Flexible Time-windowed Granger Causality Integrating Heterogeneous Interventional Time Series Data
by Ziyi Zhang, Shaogang Ren, Xiaoning Qian, Nick Duffield
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 presents a theoretically-grounded method for inferring Granger causality structures from time series data, leveraging heterogeneous interventional data to identify unknown targets. The method addresses challenges in deciphering causal structures with imperfect interventions and unknown targets, common in real-world applications. By learning Granger causal structure and recovering interventional targets, the method shows mutual promotion of these two tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper’s main idea is to figure out how things affect each other from time series data. They’re using a technique called Granger causality, which helps explain why things happen in a certain order. Usually, we use this method with perfect interventions, but what if the interventions are imperfect or we don’t know what they’re targeting? That’s what this paper is trying to solve. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Time series
