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2021NeurIPS

DiBS: Differentiable Bayesian Structure Learning

Lars Lorch, Jonas Rothfuss, Bernhard Schölkopf et al.

What this work does

Introduces a latent differentiable distribution over DAGs and performs approximate joint graph/parameter posterior inference with particle-based variational methods.

Connection to discovery

Supplies an uncertainty-bearing belief model for selecting interventions rather than collapsing immediately to one guessed causal graph.

Evidence

Inspected gradient estimators and graph/predictive posterior evaluation, including expected SHD over equivalence classes.

Scope and limitations

Approximate posteriors depend on graph priors, likelihood assumptions and inference quality. Observational non-identifiability is not removed by differentiability.

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