{"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/cost-optimal-learning-of-causal-graphs","title":"Cost-Optimal Learning of Causal Graphs","arxiv_id":"1703.02645","date":"2017-03-08","proceeding":"ICML 2017 8","authors":["Murat Kocaoglu","Alexandros G. Dimakis","Sriram Vishwanath"],"abstract":"We consider the problem of learning a causal graph over a set of variables\nwith interventions. We study the cost-optimal causal graph learning problem:\nFor a given skeleton (undirected version of the causal graph), design the set\nof interventions with minimum total cost, that can uniquely identify any causal\ngraph with the given skeleton. We show that this problem is solvable in\npolynomial time. Later, we consider the case when the number of interventions\nis limited. For this case, we provide polynomial time algorithms when the\nskeleton is a tree or a clique tree. For a general chordal skeleton, we develop\nan efficient greedy algorithm, which can be improved when the causal graph\nskeleton is an interval graph.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02645v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02645v1.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":"cost-optimal-learning-of-causal-graphs","repo_url":"https://github.com/cxjdavin/adaptivity-complexity-for-causal-graph-discovery","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"graph-learning","task_name":"Graph Learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1703.02645","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}