Jacobian Granger Causal Neural Networks for Analysis of Stationary and Nonstationary Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09573v1
• Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:07:54 GMT
• Title: Jacobian Granger Causal Neural Networks for Analysis of Stationary and Nonstationary Data
• Authors: Suryadi, Yew-Soon Ong, Lock Yue Chew
• Abstract summary: We introduce a neural network-based approach to Granger causality using the Jacobian as a measure of variable importance. The resulting approach performs consistently well compared to other approaches in identifying Granger causal variables.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Granger causality is a commonly used method for uncovering information flow and dependencies in a time series. Here we introduce JGC (Jacobian Granger Causality), a neural network-based approach to Granger causality using the Jacobian as a measure of variable importance, and propose a thresholding procedure for inferring Granger causal variables using this measure. The resulting approach performs consistently well compared to other approaches in identifying Granger causal variables, the associated time lags, as well as interaction signs. Lastly, through the inclusion of a time variable, we show that this approach is able to learn the temporal dependencies for nonstationary systems whose Granger causal structures change in time.

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