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@ARTICLE{Lagemann:268866,
author = {Lagemann, Kai and Lagemann, Christian and Taschler, Bernd
and Mukherjee, Sach},
title = {{D}eep learning of causal structures in high dimensions
under data limitations},
journal = {Nature machine intelligence},
volume = {5},
number = {11},
issn = {2522-5839},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Springer Nature Publishing},
reportid = {DZNE-2024-00365},
pages = {1306 - 1316},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Causal learning is a key challenge in scientific artificial
intelligence as it allows researchers to go beyond purely
correlative or predictive analyses towards learning
underlying cause-and-effect relationships, which are
important for scientific understanding as well as for a wide
range of downstream tasks. Here, motivated by emerging
biomedical questions, we propose a deep neural architecture
for learning causal relationships between variables from a
combination of high-dimensional data and prior causal
knowledge. We combine convolutional and graph neural
networks within a causal risk framework to provide an
approach that is demonstrably effective under the conditions
of high dimensionality, noise and data limitations that are
characteristic of many applications, including in
large-scale biology. In experiments, we find that the
proposed learners can effectively identify novel causal
relationships across thousands of variables. Results include
extensive (linear and nonlinear) simulations (where the
ground truth is known and can be directly compared against),
as well as real biological examples where the models are
applied to high-dimensional molecular data and their outputs
compared against entirely unseen validation experiments.
These results support the notion that deep learning
approaches can be used to learn causal networks at large
scale.},
cin = {AG Mukherjee},
ddc = {004},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1013030},
pnm = {354 - Disease Prevention and Healthy Aging (POF4-354)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-354},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1038/s42256-023-00744-z},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/268866},
}