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Vol. 40, 2023 No. 6
1702-1707

Higher-order cumulant-based algorithm for learning causal structure

Liao Weiguo
Zhujiang College, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510900, China
DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2022.10.0511

Abstract

Learning causal structure from observed data has important applications. An existing method for learning causal structure is to learn causal structure by testing the independence between noise and causal variables under the functional causal model assumption. However, such methods often involve highly computationally complex in process of testing independence, which affects the practicability and robustness of the structure learning algorithm. To this end, this paper proposed a causal structure learning algorithm that used higher-order cumulants as independence scores under a linear non-Gaussian model. The algorithm was mainly divided into two steps. The first step was to use the method based on conditional independence constraints to learn the Markov equivalence class of the causal structure. The second step was to define a score based on highorder cumulants, the score could determine the independence of two random variables so that the causal structure of the best independence score could be searched from the Markov equivalence class as the output of the algorithm. The advantages of this algorithm were: a) Compared with the independence test based on the kernel method, the method had lower computational complexity. b) The method based on score search could always obtain a model that best matches the data generation process, which improved the robustness of the learning method. Experimental results show that the high-order cumulant-based causal structure learning method improves the F1 score by 5% in synthetic data and learns more causal directions in real data.

Foundation Support

2020年广东省高等教育教学改革一般类教改项目(粤教高函【2020】20号-723)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2022.10.0511
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 40, 2023 No. 6
Section: Algorithm Research & Explore
Pages: 1702-1707
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2023)06-016-1702-06

Publish History

[2023-01-13] Accepted Paper
[2023-06-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

廖伟国. 一种基于高阶累积量的因果结构学习算法 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2023, 40 (6): 1702-1707. (Liao Weiguo. Higher-order cumulant-based algorithm for learning causal structure [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2023, 40 (6): 1702-1707. )

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