The Statistical Cost of Causal Discovery with Feedback

arXiv:2609.34050 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Sample Complexity — 11× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Causal Discovery — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adjustment Sets — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adjacency Matrix — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Graph Construction — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sample Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Approximation Bound — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Order — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Inference for Individual Mediation Effects and Interventional Effects in Sparse High-Dimensional Causal Graphical Models
• GroupLiNGAM: Linear non-Gaussian acyclic models for sets of variables
• Coarsening Linear Non-Gaussian Causal Models with Cycles
• Concentration Inequalities for U-Statistics: A Survey with Explicit Constants

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