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Greedy Equivalence Search (GES) is a classic score-based algorithm for causal discovery from observational data. In the sample limit, it recovers the Markov equivalence class of graphs that describe the data. Still, it faces two challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Adiba Ejaz , Elias Bareinboim

Architecture design has become a crucial component of successful deep learning. Recent progress in automatic neural architecture search (NAS) shows a lot of promise. However, discovered architectures often fail to generalize in the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Guohao Li , Guocheng Qian , Itzel C. Delgadillo , Matthias Müller , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

The goal of causal discovery is to learn a directed acyclic graph from data. One of the most well-known methods for this problem is Greedy Equivalence Search (GES). GES searches for the graph by incrementally and greedily adding or removing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Achille Nazaret , David Blei

Greedy algorithms have long been a workhorse for learning graphical models, and more broadly for learning statistical models with sparse structure. In the context of learning directed acyclic graphs, greedy algorithms are popular despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Goutham Rajendran , Bohdan Kivva , Ming Gao , Bryon Aragam

Temporal background information can improve causal discovery algorithms by orienting edges and identifying relevant adjustment sets. We develop the Temporal Greedy Equivalence Search (TGES) algorithm and terminology essential for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-13 Tobias Ellegaard Larsen , Claus Thorn Ekstrøm , Anne Helby Petersen

Identifying the structure of a partially observed causal system is essential to various scientific fields. Recent advances have focused on constraint-based causal discovery to solve this problem, and yet in practice these methods often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xinshuai Dong , Ignavier Ng , Haoyue Dai , Jiaqi Sun , Xiangchen Song , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

We introduce a novel edge tracing algorithm using Gaussian process regression. Our edge-based segmentation algorithm models an edge of interest using Gaussian process regression and iteratively searches the image for edge pixels in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jamie Burke , Stuart King

Structure learning algorithms that learn the graph of a Bayesian network from observational data often do so by assuming the data correctly reflect the true distribution of the variables. However, this assumption does not hold in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yang Liu , Anthony C. Constantinou , ZhiGao Guo

We introduce Selective Greedy Equivalence Search (SGES), a restricted version of Greedy Equivalence Search (GES). SGES retains the asymptotic correctness of GES but, unlike GES, has polynomial performance guarantees. In particular, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-09 David Maxwell Chickering , Christopher Meek

In this paper, we address the problem of learning the structure of a pairwise graphical model from samples in a high-dimensional setting. Our first main result studies the sparsistency, or consistency in sparsity pattern recovery,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Ali Jalali , Chris Johnson , Pradeep Ravikumar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to learning representation on graphs in many relational tasks. Recently, researchers study neural architecture search (NAS) to reduce the dependence of human expertise and explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Shaofei Cai , Liang Li , Xinzhe Han , Zheng-jun Zha , Qingming Huang

A key problem in deep multi-attribute learning is to effectively discover the inter-attribute correlation structures. Typically, the conventional deep multi-attribute learning approaches follow the pipeline of manually designing the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Siyu Huang , Xi Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

We present Graph Attention Collaborative Similarity Embedding (GACSE), a new recommendation framework that exploits collaborative information in the user-item bipartite graph for representation learning. Our framework consists of two parts:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinbo Song , Chao Chang , Fei Sun , Zhenyang Chen , Guoyong Hu , Peng Jiang

Main approaches for learning Bayesian networks can be classified as constraint-based, score-based or hybrid methods. Although high-dimensional consistency results are available for constraint-based methods like the PC algorithm, such…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Preetam Nandy , Alain Hauser , Marloes H. Maathuis

One of the hallmark achievements of the theory of graphical models and Bayesian model selection is the celebrated greedy equivalence search (GES) algorithm due to Chickering and Meek. GES is known to consistently estimate the structure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-26 Bryon Aragam

Estimating the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs, also known as Bayesian networks) is a challenging problem since the search space of DAGs is combinatorial and scales superexponentially with the number of nodes. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Xun Zheng , Bryon Aragam , Pradeep Ravikumar , Eric P. Xing

We develop a novel hybrid method for Bayesian network structure learning called partitioned hybrid greedy search (pHGS), composed of three distinct yet compatible new algorithms: Partitioned PC (pPC) accelerates skeleton learning via a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-24 Jireh Huang , Qing Zhou

In Bayesian Networks (BNs), the direction of edges is crucial for causal reasoning and inference. However, Markov equivalence class considerations mean it is not always possible to establish edge orientations, which is why many BN structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Kiattikun Chobtham , Anthony C. Constantinou , Neville K. Kitson

Learning Bayesian Networks (BNs) from high-dimensional data is a complex and time-consuming task. Although there are approaches based on horizontal (instances) or vertical (variables) partitioning in the literature, none can guarantee the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jorge D. Laborda , Pablo Torrijos , José M. Puerta , José A. Gámez

We study the problem of causal structure learning when the experimenter is limited to perform at most $k$ non-adaptive experiments of size $1$. We formulate the problem of finding the best intervention target set as an optimization problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-03 AmirEmad Ghassami , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash , Elias Bareinboim
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