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ArticleJournal of machine learning research : JMLR2019

Causal Learning via Manifold Regularization.

Steven M Hill, Chris J Oates, Duncan A Blythe, Sach Mukherjee

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Article in Journal of machine learning research : JMLR, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Steven M Hill *MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK.
Chris J Oates *School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
Duncan A BlytheGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
Sach Mukherjee *German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, 53127 Bonn, Germany.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00002/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper frames causal structure estimation as a machine learning task. The idea is to treat indicators of causal relationships between variables as 'labels' and to exploit available data on the variables of interest to provide features for the labelling task. Background scientific knowledge or any available interventional data provide labels on some causal relationships and the remainder are treated as unlabelled. To illustrate the key ideas, we develop a distance-based approach (based on bivariate histograms) within a manifold regularization framework. We present empirical results on three different biological data sets (including examples where causal effects can be verified by experimental intervention), that together demonstrate the efficacy and general nature of the approach as well as its simplicity from a user's point of view.

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causal graphscausal learninginterventional datamanifold regularizationsemi-supervised learning

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PMID31992961
PMCPMC6986916

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