Guide, Not Bind: Why Defeasible Priors Fail in Augmented Lagrangian Causal Discovery

Sairam Sundararaman, Sara Girdhar, Manit Narasimha Murthy +2

Differentiable causal discovery methods increasingly encode expert priors as forbidden-edge constraints enforced by an Augmented Lagrangian (ALM) penalty, on the assumption that a…