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Revisiting the General Identifiability Problem

Kivva, Yaroslav  
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Mokhtarian, Ehsan  
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Etesami, Jalal  
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2022
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

We revisit the problem of general identifiability originally introduced in [Lee et al., 2019] for causal inference and note that it is necessary to add positivity assumption of observational distribution to the original definition of the problem. We show that without such an assumption the rules of do-calculus and consequently the proposed algorithm in [Lee et al., 2019] are not sound. Moreover, adding the assumption will cause the completeness proof in [Lee et al., 2019] to fail. Under positivity assumption, we present a new algorithm that is provably both sound and complete. A nice property of this new algorithm is that it establishes a connection between general identifiability and classical identifiability by Pearl [1995] through decomposing the general identifiability problem into a series of classical identifiability sub-problems.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Kivva, Yaroslav  
Mokhtarian, Ehsan  
Etesami, Jalal  
Kiyavash, Negar  
Date Issued

2022

Published in
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Total of pages

22

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; 180

Start page

1022

End page

1030

Subjects

Causal inference

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Eindhoven, Netherlands

August 2nd - August 4th, 2022

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March 9, 2023
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