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The vast majority of successful deep neural networks are trained using variants of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms. Recent attempts to improve SGD can be broadly categorized into two approaches: (1) adaptive learning rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Michael R. Zhang , James Lucas , Geoffrey Hinton , Jimmy Ba

Differentiable solvers for the linear assignment problem (LAP) have attracted much research attention in recent years, which are usually embedded into learning frameworks as components. However, previous algorithms, with or without learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 He Liu , Tao Wang , Congyan Lang , Songhe Feng , Yi Jin , Yidong Li

Bayesian Networks (BNs) represent conditional probability relations among a set of random variables (nodes) in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and have found diverse applications in knowledge discovery. We study the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Simge Kucukyavuz , Ali Shojaie , Hasan Manzour , Linchuan Wei , Hao-Hsiang Wu

The fields of time series and graphical models emerged and advanced separately. Previous work on the structure learning of continuous and real-valued time series utilizes the time domain, with a focus on either structural autoregressive…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-18 Aramayis Dallakyan

We report a scalable hybrid quantum-classical machine learning framework to build Bayesian networks (BN) that captures the conditional dependence and causal relationships of random variables. The generation of a BN consists of finding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Radhakrishnan Balu , Ajinkya Borle

Bayesian causal discovery offers the power to quantify epistemic uncertainties among a broad range of structurally diverse causal theories potentially explaining the data, represented in forms of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Nu Hoang , Bao Duong , Thin Nguyen

Although many algorithms have been designed to construct Bayesian network structures using different approaches and principles, they all employ only two methods: those based on independence criteria, and those based on a scoring function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 S. Acid , L. M. de Campos

In this paper, we introduce a novel MCMC sampler, PARNI-DAG, for a fully-Bayesian approach to the problem of structure learning under observational data. Under the assumption of causal sufficiency, the algorithm allows for approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Alberto Caron , Xitong Liang , Samuel Livingstone , Jim Griffin

Efficient scheduling of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in heterogeneous environments is challenging due to resource capacities and dependencies. In practice, the need for adaptability across environments with varying resource pools and task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruisong Zhou , Haijun Zou , Li Zhou , Chumin Sun , Zaiwen Wen

Deep learning has shown impressive results obtained at the cost of training huge neural networks. However, the larger the architecture, the higher the computational, financial, and environmental costs during training and inference. We aim…

Due to their high computational efficiency on a continuous space, gradient optimization methods have shown great potential in the neural architecture search (NAS) domain. The mapping of network representation from the discrete space to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Jian Li , Yong Liu , Jiankun Liu , Weiping Wang

Uncovering causal structures from observational data is crucial for understanding complex systems and making informed decisions. While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in identifying these structures in the form of a directed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dong Li , Zhengzhang Chen , Xujiang Zhao , Linlin Yu , Zhong Chen , Yi He , Haifeng Chen , Chen Zhao

Inferring the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from data is a central challenge in causal discovery, particularly in modern high-dimensional settings where large-scale interventional data are increasingly available. While…

In this paper, we present a new MTL framework that searches for structures optimized for multiple tasks with diverse graph topologies and shares features among tasks. We design a restricted DAG-based central network with read-in/read-out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wonhyeok Choi , Sunghoon Im

Learning graphical conditional independence structures is an important machine learning problem and a cornerstone of causal discovery. However, the accuracy and execution time of learning algorithms generally struggle to scale to problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bryan Andrews , Joseph Ramsey , Ruben Sanchez-Romero , Jazmin Camchong , Erich Kummerfeld

Recent progress in large language models has renewed interest in how multi-step reasoning is represented internally. While prior work often treats reasoning as a linear chain, many reasoning problems are more naturally modeled as directed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianjun Zhong , Linyang He , Nima Mesgarani

In this review, we discuss approaches for learning causal structure from data, also called causal discovery. In particular, we focus on approaches for learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and various generalizations which allow for some…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-20 Chandler Squires , Caroline Uhler

Graph matching can be formalized as a combinatorial optimization problem, where there are corresponding relationships between pairs of nodes that can be represented as edges. This problem becomes challenging when there are potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Dongdong Chen , Yuxing Dai , Lichi Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) encode a lot of information about a particular distribution in their structure. However, compute required to infer these structures is typically super-exponential in the number of variables, as inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jeroen Berrevoets , Nabeel Seedat , Fergus Imrie , Mihaela van der Schaar

Discovering causal structures from multivariate time series is a key problem because interactions span across multiple lags and possibly involve instantaneous dependencies. Additionally, the search space of the dynamic graphs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sourajit Das , Dibyajyoti Chakraborty , Romit Maulik