Collaborative Causal Discovery with Atomic Interventions

Dec 6, 2021

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We introduce a new Collaborative Causal Discovery problem, through which we model a common scenario in which we have multiple independent entities each with their own causal graph, and the goal is to simultaneously learn all these causal graphs. We study this problem without the causal sufficiency assumption, using Maximal Ancestral Graphs (MAG) to model the causal graphs, and assuming that we have the ability to actively perform independent single vertex (or atomic) interventions on the entities. If the M underlying (unknown) causal graphs of the entities satisfy a natural notion of clustering, we give algorithms that leverage this property and recovers all the causal graphs using roughly logarithmic in M number of atomic interventions per entity. These are significantly fewer than n atomic interventions per entity required to learn each causal graph separately, where n is the number of observable nodes in the causal graph. We complement our results with a lower bound and discuss various extensions of our collaborative setting.

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