Efficient Identification in Linear Structural Causal Models with Auxiliary Cutsets

Authors: Daniel Kumor, Carlos Cinelli, Elias Bareinboim

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We develop a polynomial-time algorithm for identification of structural coefficients in linear causal models that subsumes previous efficient state-of-the-art methods, unifying several disparate approaches to identification in this setting. Building on these results, we develop a procedure for identifying total causal effects in linear systems.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 2Dept. of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 3Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 AC: is given a graph, target vertex x, a set of candidate instruments (which can themselves be AVs), a set of identified structural parameters, and returns the Auxiliary Cutset for x Algorithm 2 ACID: Given a graph, returns a set of identifiable structural parameters.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide an explicit statement about the release of its source code or a link to a code repository for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct empirical studies with datasets for training.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve empirical experiments with dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe empirical experiments, therefore no hardware specifications for running experiments are mentioned.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not describe empirical experiments requiring specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not describe empirical experiments or their setup details, such as hyperparameters or training configurations.