Summary of Losam: Local Search in Additive Noise Models with Mixed Mechanisms and General Noise For Global Causal Discovery, by Sujai Hiremath et al.
LoSAM: Local Search in Additive Noise Models with Mixed Mechanisms and General Noise for Global Causal Discovery
by Sujai Hiremath, Promit Ghosal, Kyra Gan
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Oct 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to inferring causal relationships from observational data, specifically additive noise models (ANMs) that enable unique directed acyclic graph (DAG) identification. The proposed method, local search in additive noise models (LoSAM), uses topological ordering and introduces new causal substructures and criteria for identifying roots and leaves, allowing for efficient top-down learning. LoSAM is shown to be asymptotically consistent and has a polynomial runtime, making it scalable and sample-efficient. The authors test LoSAM on synthetic and real-world data, achieving state-of-the-art performance across all mixed mechanism settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us figure out why things happen together without having to do expensive or tricky experiments. It’s about using special math models called additive noise models (ANMs) to find the rules that connect things. The problem is that these models usually need to make assumptions about how data is generated, which can be too restrictive for real-world situations. This paper solves this by introducing a new method called LoSAM, which uses a clever ordering system and new rules to identify patterns in the data. LoSAM is very good at finding the right answers and works well with different types of data. |
