A Scale-Invariant Sorting Criterion to Find a Causal Order in Additive Noise Models
加性噪声模型中寻找因果顺序的尺度不变排序准则
Additive Noise Models (ANMs) are a common model class for causal discovery from observational data and are often used to generate synthetic data for causal discovery benchmarking. Specifying an ANM requires choosing all parameters, including those not fixed by explicit assumptions. Reisach et al. (2021) show that sorting variables by increasing variance often yields an ordering close to a causal order and introduce var-sortability to quantify this alignment. Since increasing…