Latent Variable Models for Bayesian Causal Discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05723v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:42:04 GMT
• Title: Latent Variable Models for Bayesian Causal Discovery
• Authors: Jithendaraa Subramanian, Yashas Annadani, Ivaxi Sheth, Stefan Bauer, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
• Abstract summary: Learning predictors that do not rely on spurious correlations involves building causal representations. This work introduces a decoder model, Decoder, for Bayesian discovery and performs experiments in mildly supervised and unsupervised settings.
• Score: 29.963841449400768
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Learning predictors that do not rely on spurious correlations involves building causal representations. However, learning such a representation is very challenging. We, therefore, formulate the problem of learning a causal representation from high dimensional data and study causal recovery with synthetic data. This work introduces a latent variable decoder model, Decoder BCD, for Bayesian causal discovery and performs experiments in mildly supervised and unsupervised settings. We present a series of synthetic experiments to characterize important factors for causal discovery and show that using known intervention targets as labels helps in unsupervised Bayesian inference over structure and parameters of linear Gaussian additive noise latent structural causal models.

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