eCDANs: Efficient Temporal Causal Discovery from Autocorrelated and Non-stationary Data (Student Abstract)
This addresses limitations in causal discovery for time series data, but it appears incremental as it builds on constraint-based methods with optimizations.
The paper tackles the problem of temporal causal discovery from autocorrelated and non-stationary data, presenting eCDANs, which detects lagged and contemporaneous causal relationships with temporal changes, and experiments show it outperforms baselines.
Conventional temporal causal discovery (CD) methods suffer from high dimensionality, fail to identify lagged causal relationships, and often ignore dynamics in relations. In this study, we present a novel constraint-based CD approach for autocorrelated and non-stationary time series data (eCDANs) capable of detecting lagged and contemporaneous causal relationships along with temporal changes. eCDANs addresses high dimensionality by optimizing the conditioning sets while conducting conditional independence (CI) tests and identifies the changes in causal relations by introducing a surrogate variable to represent time dependency. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data show that eCDANs can identify time influence and outperform the baselines.