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Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are fundamental structures used across many scientific fields. A key concept in DAGs is the least common ancestor (LCA), which plays a crucial role in understanding hierarchical relationships. Surprisingly…

We explore the connections between clusters and least common ancestors (LCAs) in directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), focusing on the interplay between so-called $I$-lca-relevant DAGs and DAGs with the $I$-lca-property. Here, $I$ denotes a set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Marc Hellmuth , Anna Lindeberg

A least common ancestor (LCA) of two leaves in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a vertex that is an ancestor of both leaves and has no proper descendant that is also their common ancestor. LCAs capture hierarchical relationships in rooted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Anna Lindeberg , Anton Alfonsson , Vincent Moulton , Guillaume E. Scholz , Marc Hellmuth

Rooted phylogenetic networks, or more generally, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), are widely used to model species or gene relationships that traditional rooted trees cannot fully capture, especially in the presence of reticulate processes…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-24 Anna Lindeberg , Marc Hellmuth

Phylogenetic networks and, more generally, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) represent hierarchical structure beyond trees, for instance in the presence of reticulate evolutionary events such as hybridization or horizontal gene transfer. A…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-22 Marc Hellmuth , Anna Lindeberg , Vincent Moulton

The AP-LCA problem asks, given an $n$-node directed acyclic graph (DAG), to compute for every pair of vertices $u$ and $v$ in the DAG a lowest common ancestor (LCA) of $u$ and $v$ if one exists. In this paper we study several interesting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

Directed Acylic Graphs with a single entry vertex and a single exit vertex (st-DAGs) have many applications. For instance, they are frequently used for modelling flow problems or precedence conditions among tasks, work packages, etc.. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ulrich Vogl , Markus Siegle

A DAG compression of a (typically dense) graph is a simple data structure that stores how vertex clusters are connected, where the clusters are described indirectly as sets of reachable sinks in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). They…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Florian Chudigiewitsch , Till Tantau , Felix Winkler

We develop a novel convolutional architecture tailored for learning from data defined over directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). DAGs can be used to model causal relationships among variables, but their nilpotent adjacency matrices pose unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Samuel Rey , Hamed Ajorlou , Gonzalo Mateos

In this paper, the properties of minimal trails in a directed acyclic graph that is restricted not to contain an active cycle are studied. We are motivated by an application of the results in the copula-based Bayesian Network model…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Alexis Derumigny , Niels Horsman , Dorota Kurowicka

We introduce a novel class of labeled directed acyclic graph (LDAG) models for finite sets of discrete variables. LDAGs generalize earlier proposals for allowing local structures in the conditional probability distribution of a node, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-12 Johan Pensar , Henrik Nyman , Timo Koski , Jukka Corander

In causal graphical models based on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), directed paths represent causal pathways between the corresponding variables. The variable at the beginning of such a path is referred to as an ancestor of the variable at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Wenyu Chen , Mathias Drton , Ali Shojaie

Recent work on causal abstraction, in particular graphical approaches focusing on causal structure between clusters of variables, aims to summarize a high-dimensional causal structure in terms of a low-dimensional one. Existing methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Francisco Madaleno , Francisco C Pereira , Alex Markham

It is well known that there may be many causal explanations that are consistent with a given set of data. Recent work has been done to represent the common aspects of these explanations into one representation. In this paper, we address…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-09 Ayesha R. Ali , Thomas S. Richardson , Peter L. Spirtes , Jiji Zhang

Let $G=(V,E)$ be an $n$-vertex directed acyclic graph (DAG). A lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two vertices $u$ and $v$ is a common ancestor $w$ of $u$ and $v$ such that no descendant of $w$ has the same property. In this paper, we consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Fabrizio Grandoni , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Aleksander Łukasiewicz , Nikos Parotsidis , Przemysław Uznański

Estimating the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from observational data remains a significant challenge in machine learning. Most research in this area concentrates on learning a single DAG for the entire population. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-21 Ryan Thompson , Edwin V. Bonilla , Robert Kohn

We give methods for Bayesian inference of directed acyclic graphs, DAGs, and the induced causal effects from passively observed complete data. Our methods build on a recent Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme for learning Bayesian networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Jussi Viinikka , Antti Hyttinen , Johan Pensar , Mikko Koivisto

Maximal Ancestral Graphs (MAGs) provide an abstract representation of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) with latent (selection) variables. These graphical objects encode information about ancestral relations and d-separations of the DAGs they…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Binghua Yao , Joris M. Mooij

A directed acyclic graph (DAG) partially represents the conditional independence structure among observations of a system if the local Markov condition holds, that is, if every variable is independent of its non-descendants given its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Bastian Steudel , Nihat Ay

A growing body of work has begun to study intervention design for efficient structure learning of causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). A typical setting is a causally sufficient setting, i.e. a system with no latent confounders, selection…

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