Bivariate Causal Discovery for Categorical Data via Classification with Optimal Label Permutation
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DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2209.08579arXiv2209.08579MaRDI QIDQ95280FDOQ95280
Authors: Yang Ni 
Publication date: 18 September 2022
Abstract: Causal discovery for quantitative data has been extensively studied but less is known for categorical data. We propose a novel causal model for categorical data based on a new classification model, termed classification with optimal label permutation (COLP). By design, COLP is a parsimonious classifier, which gives rise to a provably identifiable causal model. A simple learning algorithm via comparing likelihood functions of causal and anti-causal models suffices to learn the causal direction. Through experiments with synthetic and real data, we demonstrate the favorable performance of the proposed COLP-based causal model compared to state-of-the-art methods. We also make available an accompanying R package COLP, which contains the proposed causal discovery algorithm and a benchmark dataset of categorical cause-effect pairs.
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