Learning Structural Causal Models from Ordering: Identifiable Flow Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09843v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:25:56 GMT
• Title: Learning Structural Causal Models from Ordering: Identifiable Flow Models
• Authors: Minh Khoa Le, Kien Do, Truyen Tran,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a set of flow models that can recover component-wise, invertible transformation of variables. We propose design improvements that enable simultaneous learning of all causal mechanisms. Our method achieves a significant reduction in computational time compared to existing diffusion-based techniques.
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• Abstract: In this study, we address causal inference when only observational data and a valid causal ordering from the causal graph are available. We introduce a set of flow models that can recover component-wise, invertible transformation of exogenous variables. Our flow-based methods offer flexible model design while maintaining causal consistency regardless of the number of discretization steps. We propose design improvements that enable simultaneous learning of all causal mechanisms and reduce abduction and prediction complexity to linear O(n) relative to the number of layers, independent of the number of causal variables. Empirically, we demonstrate that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art approaches and delivers consistent performance across a wide range of structural causal models in answering observational, interventional, and counterfactual questions. Additionally, our method achieves a significant reduction in computational time compared to existing diffusion-based techniques, making it practical for large structural causal models.

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