Unsuitability of NOTEARS for Causal Graph Discovery

04/12/2021
by   Marcus Kaiser, et al.
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Causal Discovery methods aim to identify a DAG structure that represents causal relationships from observational data. In this article, we stress that it is important to test such methods for robustness in practical settings. As our main example, we analyze the NOTEARS method, for which we demonstrate a lack of scale-invariance. We show that NOTEARS is a method that aims to identify a parsimonious DAG from the data that explains the residual variance. We conclude that NOTEARS is not suitable for identifying truly causal relationships from the data.

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