Learning Structural Causal Models through Deep Generative Models: Methods, Guarantees, and Challenges
It provides a comprehensive overview for researchers and practitioners in causal inference, but is incremental as a review paper.
This paper reviews deep structural causal models (DSCMs) for answering counterfactual queries using observational data, analyzing their hypotheses, guarantees, and applications to understand capabilities and limitations.
This paper provides a comprehensive review of deep structural causal models (DSCMs), particularly focusing on their ability to answer counterfactual queries using observational data within known causal structures. It delves into the characteristics of DSCMs by analyzing the hypotheses, guarantees, and applications inherent to the underlying deep learning components and structural causal models, fostering a finer understanding of their capabilities and limitations in addressing different counterfactual queries. Furthermore, it highlights the challenges and open questions in the field of deep structural causal modeling. It sets the stages for researchers to identify future work directions and for practitioners to get an overview in order to find out the most appropriate methods for their needs.