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New research tackles weaker faithfulness in statistical structure learning

A new arXiv paper introduces methods to improve the operationalization of "weaker faithfulness" in structure learning for statistical models. The research proposes two approaches: selective protection within an adjacency learner and explicit retention of alternative directed graph explanations. Experiments demonstrate that combining these techniques can significantly increase the recovery of informative links, though it may also introduce false edges. The study highlights that while these methods show promise, finite evidence and computational limitations remain substantial challenges for reliable general inference. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Cillian Hourican, Rick Quax ·

    Operationalising Weaker Faithfulness: Recovery, Ambiguity and Computational Limits

    arXiv:2610.31724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variables can predict an outcome jointly while each is individually independent of it, causing structure learners to discard informative links. We investigate how to operationalise weaker faithfulness through two approaches: selec…