VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Hanin Al Ghothani
dblp:261/4430
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › causal inference
causal discovery |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On Causal Discovery in the Presence of Deterministic Relations · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › causal inference › causal discovery
score-based causal discovery |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On Causal Discovery in the Presence of Deterministic Relations · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
greedy equivalent search · 0.8exact search · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | On Causal Discovery in the Presence of Deterministic RelationsabstractMany causal discovery methods typically rely on the assumption of independent noise, yet real-life situations often involve deterministic relationships. In these cases, observed variables are represented as deterministic functions of their parental variables without noise.
When determinism is present, constraint-based methods encounter challenges due to the violation of the faithfulness assumption. In this paper, we find, supported by both theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, that score-based methods with exact search can naturally address the issues of deterministic relations under rather mild assumptions. Nonetheless, exact score-based methods can be computationally expensive. To enhance the efficiency and scalability, we develop a novel framework for causal discovery that can detect and handle deterministic relations, called Determinism-aware Greedy Equivalent Search (DGES). DGES comprises three phases: (1) identify minimal deterministic clusters (i.e., a minimal set of variables with deterministic relationships), (2) run modified Greedy Equivalent Search (GES) to obtain an initial graph, and (3) perform exact search exclusively on the deterministic cluster and its neighbors. The proposed DGES accommodates both linear and nonlinear causal relationships, as well as both continuous and discrete data types. Furthermore, we investigate the identifiability conditions of DGES. We conducted extensive experiments on both simulated and real-world datasets to show the efficacy of our proposed method. Loka Li, Haoyue Dai, Hanin Al Ghothani, Biwei Huang, Jiji Zhang, Shahar Harel, Isaac Bentwich, Guangyi Chen 0002, Kun Zhang 0001 |
NeurIPS | 3 |