Ordering-based Causal Discovery via Generalized Score Matching
Unlock Precise Causal Insights in Discrete Data with Generalized Score Matching
This research extends cutting-edge score matching techniques to discrete data, enabling accurate identification of causal orders and significantly boosting the performance of existing causal discovery algorithms. Discover how this breakthrough impacts enterprise AI for better decision-making.
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Our innovative approach empowers businesses to move beyond continuous data limitations, deriving robust causal insights from discrete categorical datasets. This leads to more reliable predictive models and strategic clarity.
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Introduction
Discrete Score Function
Non-decreasing Randomness Condition
Introduction
This section introduces the challenges of causal discovery from observational data, particularly identifiability and computational intractability. It highlights ordering-based causal discovery and the limitation of current score matching methods to continuous data. The paper's contribution is extending score matching to discrete data, proving identifiability, and demonstrating improved causal order inference.
Discrete Score Function
We define a novel leaf discriminant criterion based on the discrete score function. Unlike continuous data, the score function for discrete variables is not well-defined, leading to the use of a generalized score matching principle. This involves a marginalization operator M where each Mip(x) is a reciprocal of the singleton conditional density p(xi|x-i), which is complete and determines the joint density.
Non-decreasing Randomness Condition
A key identifiability result is established: a topological order can be recovered if there exists a randomness measure satisfying the non-decreasing randomness condition. This condition ensures that the leaf variables are identifiable and reflects residual uncertainty. It generalizes homoscedastic and non-decreasing variance of noises assumptions from additive noise models.
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Faster Order Search with A100 GPUs for 50-node graphs
Enterprise Process Flow
Estimate Discrete Score Functions
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Identify Leaf Node (arg max of randomness criterion)
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Remove Leaf Variable
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Repeat Until Full Order Determined
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Post-process for DAG Estimation
| Method | Continuous Data | Discrete Data | Additive Noise (ANM) | Non-Additive Mechanisms |
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| LISTEN | ||||
| SCORE | ||||
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| AdaScore | ||||
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Improved Diagnostics in Healthcare
In a simulated healthcare scenario (CH, d=20), our discrete score matching method significantly improved the F1 score for causal graph recovery by over 15% compared to traditional baselines. This demonstrates its potential for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and treatment pathway optimization from patient record data.
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