Learning Flexible Time-windowed Granger Causality Integrating Heterogeneous Interventional Time Series Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10419v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:36:00 GMT
• Title: Learning Flexible Time-windowed Granger Causality Integrating Heterogeneous Interventional Time Series Data
• Authors: Ziyi Zhang, Shaogang Ren, Xiaoning Qian, Nick Duffield,
• Abstract summary: We present a theoretically-grounded method that infers Granger causal structure and identifies unknown targets by leveraging heterogeneous interventional time series data. Our method outperforms several robust baseline methods in learning Granger causal structure from interventional time series data.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Granger causality, commonly used for inferring causal structures from time series data, has been adopted in widespread applications across various fields due to its intuitive explainability and high compatibility with emerging deep neural network prediction models. To alleviate challenges in better deciphering causal structures unambiguously from time series, the use of interventional data has become a practical approach. However, existing methods have yet to be explored in the context of imperfect interventions with unknown targets, which are more common and often more beneficial in a wide range of real-world applications. Additionally, the identifiability issues of Granger causality with unknown interventional targets in complex network models remain unsolved. Our work presents a theoretically-grounded method that infers Granger causal structure and identifies unknown targets by leveraging heterogeneous interventional time series data. We further illustrate that learning Granger causal structure and recovering interventional targets can mutually promote each other. Comparative experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms several robust baseline methods in learning Granger causal structure from interventional time series data.

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