7 papers
How PC-based Methods Err: Towards Better Reporting of Assumption Violations and Small Sample Errors
Sofia Faltenbacher, Jonas Wahl, Rebecca Herman +1
Causal discovery methods based on the PC algorithm are proven to be sound if all structural assumptions are fulfilled and all conditional independence tests are correct. This ideal…
Structural Causal Bottleneck Models
Simon Bing, Jonas Wahl, Jakob Runge
We introduce structural causal bottleneck models (SCBMs), a novel class of structural causal models. At the core of SCBMs lies the assumption that causal effects between high-dimen…
Unitless Unrestricted Markov-Consistent SCM Generation: Better Benchmark Datasets for Causal Discovery
Rebecca J. Herman, Jonas Wahl, Urmi Ninad +1
Causal discovery aims to extract qualitative causal knowledge in the form of causal graphs from data. Because causal ground truth is rarely known in the real world, simulated data…
The Landscape of Causal Discovery Data: Grounding Causal Discovery in Real-World Applications
Philippe Brouillard, Chandler Squires, Jonas Wahl +4
Causal discovery aims to automatically uncover causal relationships from data, a capability with significant potential across many scientific disciplines. However, its real-world a…
Causal discovery on vector-valued variables and consistency-guided aggregation
Urmi Ninad, Jonas Wahl, Andreas Gerhardus +1
Causal discovery (CD) aims to discover the causal graph underlying the data generation mechanism of observed variables. In many real-world applications, the observed variables are…
When Counterfactual Reasoning Fails: Chaos and Real-World Complexity
Yahya Aalaila, Gerrit GroÃmann, Sumantrak Mukherjee +2
Counterfactual reasoning, a cornerstone of human cognition and decision-making, is often seen as the 'holy grail' of causal learning, with applications ranging from interpreting ma…