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Causal Effect Identification with Context-specific Independence Relations of Control Variables

Mokhtarian, Ehsan  
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Jamshidi, Fateme  
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Etesami, Jalal  
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January 1, 2022
International Conference On Artificial Intelligence And Statistics, Vol 151
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

We study the problem of causal effect identification from observational distribution given the causal graph and some context-specific independence (CSI) relations. It was recently shown that this problem is NP-hard, and while a sound algorithm to learn the causal effects is proposed in Tikka et al. (2019), no provably complete algorithm for the task exists. In this work, we propose a sound and complete algorithm for the setting when the CSI relations are limited to observed nodes with no parents in the causal graph. One limitation of the state of the art in terms of its applicability is that the CSI relations among all variables, even unobserved ones, must be given (as opposed to learned). Instead, We introduce a set of graphical constraints under which the CSI relations can be learned from mere observational distribution. This expands the set of identifiable causal effects beyond the state of the art.

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Web of Science ID

WOS:000841852305034

Author(s)
Mokhtarian, Ehsan  
Jamshidi, Fateme  
Etesami, Jalal  
Kiyavash, Negar  
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH

Publisher place

San Diego

Published in
International Conference On Artificial Intelligence And Statistics, Vol 151
Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

Volume

151

Subjects

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Statistics & Probability

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Computer Science

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Mathematics

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Mar 28-30, 2022

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November 7, 2022
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