Mutual-information-inspired heuristics for constraint-based causal structure learning

DOI10.1016/j.ins.2020.12.009zbMath1484.68195MaRDI QIDQ2127115

Yang Gao, Ling Lin, Huiling Wang, Xiaolong Qi, Xiaocong Fan

Publication date: 19 April 2022

Published in: Information Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2020.12.009

zbMATH Keywords

mutual information; causal structure learning; d-separation; Markov-chain consistency; smaller adjacency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68T05: Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence

60J20: Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)

62H22: Probabilistic graphical models

62D20: Causal inference from observational studies

Uses Software

• TETRAD
• Adaptive Threshold