Justifying information-geometric causal inference

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-21852-6_18MaRDI QIDQ2805731zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bastian Steudel, Naji Shajarisales, Bernhard Schölkopf, Dominik Janzing

Publication date 13 May 2016

Published in Measures of Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2499

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Linear inference, regression (62J99)

Abstract: Information Geometric Causal Inference (IGCI) is a new approach to distinguish between cause and effect for two variables. It is based on an independence assumption between input distribution and causal mechanism that can be phrased in terms of orthogonality in information space. We describe two intuitive reinterpretations of this approach that makes IGCI more accessible to a broader audience. Moreover, we show that the described independence is related to the hypothesis that unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning only works for predicting the cause from the effect and not vice versa.

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