Poster
Score Matching Enables Causal Discovery of Nonlinear Additive Noise Models
Paul Rolland · Volkan Cevher · Matthäus Kleindessner · Chris Russell · Dominik Janzing · Bernhard Schölkopf · Francesco Locatello
Hall E #539
Keywords: [ PM: Structure Learning ] [ MISC: Scalable Algorithms ] [ MISC: Causality ]
This paper demonstrates how to recover causal graphs from the score of the data distribution in non-linear additive (Gaussian) noise models. Using score matching algorithms as a building block, we show how to design a new generation of scalable causal discovery methods. To showcase our approach, we also propose a new efficient method for approximating the score's Jacobian, enabling to recover the causal graph. Empirically, we find that the new algorithm, called SCORE, is competitive with state-of-the-art causal discovery methods while being significantly faster.