A continuous structural intervention distance to compare causal graphs
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Dhanakshirur, Mihir
Laumann, Felix
Park, Junhyung
Barahona, Mauricio
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Causal inference under interventions requires accurate assessment of differences between true and learned causal graphs. We introduce a new continuous metric that extends beyond graph-based measures like Structural Hamming Distance and Structural Intervention Distance by incorporating underlying data alongside graph structures. Our approach embeds intervention distributions for each node pair as conditional mean embeddings in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, then quantifies their disparity using maximum (conditional) mean discrepancy. We present theoretical findings supported by synthetic data experiments.
Date Issued
2024-10-18
Date Acceptance
2024-07-04
Citation
2024, pp.25-40
ISBN
9789819778119
ISSN
1865-0929
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Start Page
25
End Page
40
Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2025 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. This is the author’s accepted manuscript made available under a CC-BY licence in accordance with Imperial’s Research Publications Open Access policy (www.imperial.ac.uk/oa-policy)
License URL
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7812-6_3
Source
Pacific Causal Inference Conference
Publication Status
Published online
Start Date
2024-07-04
Finish Date
2024-07-06
Coverage Spatial
Shanghai, China
Date Publish Online
2024-10-18