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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Causal Inference
  • Machine Learning

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  • Causal discovery is crucial for AI and social development.
  • Acyclic Directed Graphs (DAGs) are standard for causal modeling due to interpretability.
  • Insufficient data hinders DAG learning accuracy and efficiency, leading to misperceived causality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address limitations in DAG learning with insufficient data.
  • To integrate expert knowledge as hard constraints and data-derived structural priors as soft constraints.
  • To propose a novel hyper-heuristic for enhanced DAG learning.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a fitness-rate-rank-based multiarmed bandit (FRRMAB) hyper-heuristic.
  • Integrated hard constraints (expert knowledge) and soft constraints (data-driven priors).
  • Obtained soft constraints via partial correlation analysis for linear structural equation models (SEMs).

Main Results:

  • The FRRMAB hyper-heuristic demonstrated improved scalability and accuracy.
  • Experimental results on various networks validated the proposed method's effectiveness.
  • The integration of soft and hard constraints enhanced DAG learning performance.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method effectively combines expert knowledge and data-driven priors for causal discovery.
  • This approach improves the accuracy and scalability of DAG learning, particularly in data-scarce scenarios.
  • The FRRMAB hyper-heuristic offers a robust solution for reliable causal inference.