arXiv:2510.12503cs.LGcs.AI2025-10ICLR被引 4

检验不同可微因果发现方法在假设不成立时的鲁棒性,发现多数情况仍有效。

The Robustness of Differentiable Causal Discovery in Misspecified Scenarios

  • 在八种假设违反场景下测试主流可微因果发现算法性能
  • 结构哈明距离与结构干预距离指标显示多数方法具鲁棒性,仅尺度变化例外
  • 为真实场景应用提供评估标准,适合关注因果推断实用性的研究者

因果发现旨在从数据中学习变量间的因果关系,是机器学习中的基础任务。然而,现有因果发现算法通常依赖难以验证的因果假设,在真实数据中往往难以满足,限制了其实际应用。为此,本文系统评估了多种主流可微因果发现算法在八类模型假设违背情况下的表现。实验结果表明,在常用挑战性场景中,可微因果发现方法在结构哈明距离(Structural Hamming Distance)和结构干预距离(Structural Intervention Distance)指标上表现出良好鲁棒性,仅在尺度变化情形下失效。我们还提供了相应理论解释。本工作旨在全面评测近期可微因果发现方法在假设偏离下的表现,建立合理评估标准,进一步推动其在真实场景的应用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Causal discovery aims to learn causal relationships between variables from targeted data, making it a fundamental task in machine learning. However, causal discovery algorithms often rely on unverifiable causal assumptions, which are usually difficult to satisfy in real-world data, thereby limiting the broad application of causal discovery in practical scenarios. Inspired by these considerations, this work extensively benchmarks the empirical performance of various mainstream causal discovery algorithms, which assume i.i.d. data, under eight model assumption violations. Our experimental results show that differentiable causal discovery methods exhibit robustness under the metrics of Structural Hamming Distance and Structural Intervention Distance of the inferred graphs in commonly used challenging scenarios, except for scale variation. We also provide the theoretical explanations for the performance of differentiable causal discovery methods. Finally, our work aims to comprehensively benchmark the performance of recent differentiable causal discovery methods under model assumption violations, and provide the standard for reasonable evaluation of causal discovery, as well as to further promote its application in real-world scenarios.

因果发现可微方法鲁棒性

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