Discovering causal structures from data is a challenging inference problem of fundamental importance in all areas of science. The appealing scaling properties of neural networks have recently led to a surge of interest in differentiable neural network-based methods for learning causal structures from data. So far differentiable causal discovery has focused on static datasets of observational or interventional origin. In this work, we introduce an active intervention-targeting mechanism which enables a quick identification of the underlying causal structure of the data-generating process. Our method significantly reduces the required number of interactions compared with random intervention targeting and is applicable for both discrete and continuous optimization formulations of learning the underlying directed acyclic graph (DAG) from data. We examine the proposed method across a wide range of settings and demonstrate superior performance on multiple benchmarks from simulated to real-world data.

介绍了一种基于AIT的方法，可快速识别数据生成过程的基础因果结构。该方法可用于离散和连续优化公式，并在模拟到实际数据的多个基准测试中表现出卓越的性能。(Translation: An AIT-based method is introduced to quickly identify the underlying causal structure of the data-generating process, which is applicable for both discrete and continuous optimization formulations of learning the underlying directed acyclic graph from data, and demonstrates superior performance on multiple benchmarks from simulated to real-world data.)

使用主动干预的神经因果模型学习