Summary of Unsupervised Pairwise Causal Discovery on Heterogeneous Data Using Mutual Information Measures, by Alexandre Trilla et al.
Unsupervised Pairwise Causal Discovery on Heterogeneous Data using Mutual Information Measures
by Alexandre Trilla, Nenad Mijatovic
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper targets the generalizability of causal discovery methods by analyzing statistical properties of two-variable relationships. It critiques current baseline results obtained through supervised learning and instead employs unsupervised Mutual Information measures to discover causal relations. The work provides novel, unbiased results that can serve as a reference for future discovery tasks in unknown environments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers aim to improve the accuracy of identifying cause-and-effect relationships between two variables. They challenge current methods used to find these relationships and propose a new approach using mutual information measures that doesn’t require labeled data. This new method can help scientists better understand how things are connected in complex systems. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Supervised * Unsupervised
