AI RESEARCH

Estimating Joint Interventional Distributions from Marginal Interventional Data

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2409.01794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross In this paper we show how to exploit interventional data to acquire the joint conditional distribution of all the variables using the Maximum Entropy principle. To this end, we extend the Causal Maximum Entropy method to make use of interventional data in addition to observational data. Using Lagrange duality, we prove that the solution to the Causal Maximum Entropy problem with interventional constraints lies in the exponential family, as in the Maximum Entropy solution.