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From Ordinary Differential Equations to Structural Causal Models: the deterministic case

Artificial Intelligence 2014-08-12 v1

Abstract

We show how, and under which conditions, the equilibrium states of a first-order Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) system can be described with a deterministic Structural Causal Model (SCM). Our exposition sheds more light on the concept of causality as expressed within the framework of Structural Causal Models, especially for cyclic models.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1408.2063,
  title  = {From Ordinary Differential Equations to Structural Causal Models: the deterministic case},
  author = {Joris Mooij and Dominik Janzing and Bernhard Schoelkopf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2063},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2013)

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