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Do Not Marginalize Mechanisms, Rather Consolidate!

Moritz Willig; Matej Zecevic; Devendra Singh Dhami; Kristian Kersting
In: Alice Oh; Tristan Naumann; Amir Globerson; Kate Saenko; Moritz Hardt; Sergey Levine (Hrsg.). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 10 - 16, 2023. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Pages 1-19, arXiv, 2023.

Zusammenfassung

Structural causal models (SCMs) are a powerful tool for understanding the complex causal relationships that underlie many real-world systems. As these systems grow in size, the number of variables and complexity of interactions between them does, too. Thus, becoming convoluted and difficult to analyze. This is particularly true in the context of machine learning and artificial intelligence, where an ever increasing amount of data demands for new methods to simplify and compress large scale SCM. While methods for marginalizing and abstracting SCM already exist today, they may destroy the causality of the marginalized model. To alleviate this, we introduce the concept of consolidating causal mechanisms to transform large-scale SCM while preserving consistent interventional behaviour. We show consolidation is a powerful method for simplifying SCM, discuss reduction of computational complexity and give a perspective on generalizing abilities of consolidated SCM.

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