Causal Bayesian Optimization via Exogenous Distribution Learning
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| author | Ren, Shaogang Wang, Zihao Chen, Yuzhou Qian, Xiaoning |
| author_facet | Ren, Shaogang Wang, Zihao Chen, Yuzhou Qian, Xiaoning |
| contents | Maximizing a target variable as an operational objective within a structural causal model is a fundamental problem. Causal Bayesian Optimization (CBO) approaches typically achieve this either by performing interventions that modify the causal structure to increase the reward or by introducing action nodes to endogenous variables, thereby adjusting the data-generating mechanisms to meet the objective. In this paper, we propose a novel method that learns the distribution of exogenous variables-an aspect often ignored or marginalized through expectation in existing CBO frameworks. By modeling the exogenous distribution, we enhance the approximation fidelity of the data-generating structural causal models (SCMs) used in surrogate models, which are commonly trained on limited observational data. Furthermore, the ability to recover exogenous variables enables the application of our approach to more general causal structures beyond the confines of Additive Noise Models (ANMs) and single-mode Gaussian, allowing the use of more expressive priors for context noise. We incorporate the learned exogenous distribution into a new CBO method, demonstrating its advantages across diverse datasets and application scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Causal Bayesian Optimization via Exogenous Distribution Learning Ren, Shaogang Wang, Zihao Chen, Yuzhou Qian, Xiaoning Machine Learning Maximizing a target variable as an operational objective within a structural causal model is a fundamental problem. Causal Bayesian Optimization (CBO) approaches typically achieve this either by performing interventions that modify the causal structure to increase the reward or by introducing action nodes to endogenous variables, thereby adjusting the data-generating mechanisms to meet the objective. In this paper, we propose a novel method that learns the distribution of exogenous variables-an aspect often ignored or marginalized through expectation in existing CBO frameworks. By modeling the exogenous distribution, we enhance the approximation fidelity of the data-generating structural causal models (SCMs) used in surrogate models, which are commonly trained on limited observational data. Furthermore, the ability to recover exogenous variables enables the application of our approach to more general causal structures beyond the confines of Additive Noise Models (ANMs) and single-mode Gaussian, allowing the use of more expressive priors for context noise. We incorporate the learned exogenous distribution into a new CBO method, demonstrating its advantages across diverse datasets and application scenarios. |
| title | Causal Bayesian Optimization via Exogenous Distribution Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02277 |