{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/causal-generative-neural-networks","title":"Causal Generative Neural Networks","arxiv_id":"1711.08936","date":"2017-11-24","proceeding":"ICLR 2018 1","authors":["Olivier Goudet","Diviyan Kalainathan","Philippe Caillou","Isabelle Guyon","David Lopez-Paz","Michèle Sebag"],"abstract":"We present Causal Generative Neural Networks (CGNNs) to learn functional\ncausal models from observational data. CGNNs leverage conditional\nindependencies and distributional asymmetries to discover bivariate and\nmultivariate causal structures. CGNNs make no assumption regarding the lack of\nconfounders, and learn a differentiable generative model of the data by using\nbackpropagation. Extensive experiments show their good performances\ncomparatively to the state of the art in observational causal discovery on both\nsimulated and real data, with respect to cause-effect inference, v-structure\nidentification, and multivariate causal discovery.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08936v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.08936v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"causal-generative-neural-networks","repo_url":"https://github.com/GoudetOlivier/CGNN","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"causal-discovery","task_name":"Causal Discovery"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1711.08936","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}