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Causal Discovery as Dialectical Aggregation: A Quantitative Argumentation Framework
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The paper introduces Quantitative Argumentation for Causal Discovery (QACD), a new framework designed to address the brittleness of constraint-based causal discovery in finite-sample regimes. It treats conditional-independence outcomes as graded, defeasible arguments to improve structural coherence and reliability in noisy environments.
Why it matters
Moving beyond binary independence tests toward probabilistic argumentation addresses the fundamental brittleness of current causal discovery models in noisy, real-world data environments.
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#causal discovery #machine learning #probabilistic graphical models #statistical learningRelated coverage
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