(2022) Discovering Invariant and Changing Mechanisms from Data.
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Abstract
While invariance of causal mechanisms has inspired recent work in both robust machine learning and causal inference, causal mech- anisms often vary over domains due to, for example, population- specific differences, the context of data collection, or intervention. To discover invariant and changing mechanisms from data, we pro- pose extending the algorithmic model for causation to mechanism changes and instantiating it via Minimum Description Length. In essence, for a continuous variable ???? in multiple contexts C, we identify variables ???? as causal if the regression functions ???? : ???? → ???? have succinct descriptions in all contexts. In empirical evaluations we show that our method, Vario, reveals mechanism changes, dis- covers causal variables by invariance, and finds causal networks, such as on real-world data that gives insight into the signaling pathways in human immune cells.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (A Paper) (Paper) |
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| Divisions: | Jilles Vreeken (Exploratory Data Analysis) |
| Conference: | KDD ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining |
| Depositing User: | Sebastian Dalleiger |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 10:42 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2022 10:42 |
| Primary Research Area: | NRA1: Trustworthy Information Processing |
| URI: | https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/3728 |
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