A Versatile Causal Discovery Framework to Allow Causally-Related Hidden Variables

Authors: Xinshuai Dong, Biwei Huang, Ignavier Ng, Xiangchen Song, Yujia Zheng, Songyao Jin, Roberto Legaspi, Peter Spirtes, Kun Zhang

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experimental results on both synthetic and real-world personality data sets demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach in finite-sample cases. Our code will be publicly available. 6 EXPERIMENTS We validate our method using both synthetic and real-life data.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration 1Carnegie Mellon University 2University of California San Diego 3KDDI Research 4Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: The overall procedure for Rank-based Latent Causal Discovery (RLCD).
Open Source Code No Our code will be publicly available.
Open Datasets Yes real-world Big Five Personality dataset https://openpsychometrics.org/.
Dataset Splits No No specific information regarding training/validation/test dataset splits (e.g., percentages or sample counts) is provided in the paper.
Hardware Specification Yes We conduct all the experiments with single Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2470.
Software Dependencies No Our code is implemented with Python 3.7.
Experiment Setup Yes the hyperparameter α is chosen from {0.1, 0.05, 0.01, 0.005} in favor of each method to ensure their best performance and thus a fair comparison. For the proposed method we employ α = 0.005 for the procedure of finding latent variables, while for the first stage we empirically find that using a rather big α would be better.