Probabilistic Reasoning across the Causal Hierarchy
Logic in Computer Science
2021-06-03 v5 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
We propose a formalization of the three-tier causal hierarchy of association, intervention, and counterfactuals as a series of probabilistic logical languages. Our languages are of strictly increasing expressivity, the first capable of expressing quantitative probabilistic reasoning -- including conditional independence and Bayesian inference -- the second encoding do-calculus reasoning for causal effects, and the third capturing a fully expressive do-calculus for arbitrary counterfactual queries. We give a corresponding series of finitary axiomatizations complete over both structural causal models and probabilistic programs, and show that satisfiability and validity for each language are decidable in polynomial space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2001.02889,
title = {Probabilistic Reasoning across the Causal Hierarchy},
author = {Duligur Ibeling and Thomas Icard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02889},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
AAAI-20