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Paper · 2306.00624 · ICML · 2023

From Temporal to Contemporaneous Iterative Causal Discovery in the Presence of Latent Confounders

Raanan Rohekar, Yaniv Gurwicz, Shami Nisimov, Gal Novik

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Abstract

We present a constraint-based algorithm for learning causal structures from observational timeseries data, in the presence of latent confounders. We assume a discrete-time, stationary structural vector autoregressive process, with both temporal and contemporaneous causal relations. One may ask if temporal and contemporaneous relations should be treated differently. The presented algorithm gradually refines a causal graph by learning long-term temporal relations before shortterm ones, where contemporaneous relations are learned last. This ordering of causal relations to be learnt leads to a reduction in the required number of statistical tests. We validate this reduction empirically and demonstrate that it leads to higher accuracy for synthetic data and more plausible causal graphs for real-world data compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.

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