CAnDOIT: Causal Discovery with Observational and Interventional Data from Time-Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02844v3
• Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:48:39 GMT
• Title: CAnDOIT: Causal Discovery with Observational and Interventional Data from Time-Series
• Authors: Luca Castri, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto,
• Abstract summary: CAnDOIT is a causal discovery method to reconstruct causal models using both observational and interventional data. The use of interventional data in the causal analysis is crucial for real-world applications, such as robotics. A Python implementation of CAnDOIT has also been developed and is publicly available on GitHub.
• Score: 4.008958683836471
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The study of cause-and-effect is of the utmost importance in many branches of science, but also for many practical applications of intelligent systems. In particular, identifying causal relationships in situations that include hidden factors is a major challenge for methods that rely solely on observational data for building causal models. This paper proposes CAnDOIT, a causal discovery method to reconstruct causal models using both observational and interventional time-series data. The use of interventional data in the causal analysis is crucial for real-world applications, such as robotics, where the scenario is highly complex and observational data alone are often insufficient to uncover the correct causal structure. Validation of the method is performed initially on randomly generated synthetic models and subsequently on a well-known benchmark for causal structure learning in a robotic manipulation environment. The experiments demonstrate that the approach can effectively handle data from interventions and exploit them to enhance the accuracy of the causal analysis. A Python implementation of CAnDOIT has also been developed and is publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/lcastri/causalflow.

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