Wayne Lam: Greedy Relaxations of the Sparsest Permutation Algorithm
Time: Tue 2023-02-07 16.15
Location: 3418, Lindstedtsvägen 25, and Zoom
Video link: Meeting ID: 621 8808 6001
Participating: Wayne Lam (Carnegie Mellon University)
Abstract.
There has been an increasing interest in methods that exploit permutation reasoning to search for directed acyclic causal models, including the "Ordering Search" of Teyssier and Kohler and GSP of Solus, Wang and Uhler. We extend the methods of the latter by a permutation-based operation, tuck, and develop a class of algorithms, namely GRaSP, that are efficient and pointwise consistent under increasingly weaker assumptions than faithfulness. The most relaxed form of GRaSP outperforms many state-of-the-art causal search algorithms in simulation, allowing efficient and accurate search even for dense graphs and graphs with more than 100 variables.