relaxing-faithfulness-with-intervention-only-causal-discovery-1dd7fa11·1 events·first seen Aliases: Relaxing Faithfulness with Intervention-Only Causal Discovery
A new arXiv preprint proposes a weaker assumption called 'intervention-immediacy faithfulness' that allows causal discovery to proceed correctly even when buffering or stabilizing pathways cancel out and violate the standard faithfulness assumption. The authors show that hard interventions alone can nonparametrically identify causal structures, repositioning interventions as the primary information source over conditional independence testing on observational data. The work also characterizes equivalence classes when interventions are insufficient to fully identify structure.