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Relaxing the Causal Sufficiency Assumption

To build robust cause-effect inference tools, the causal sufficiency assumption often needs to be relaxed, as many real-world problems involve hidden common confounders (e.g., age or gender) that affect both variables. One proposed approach models these confounders by introducing correlation between the noise variables NXN_X and NYN_Y that affect variables XX and YY, or by modeling unobserved confounding effects using a new noise variable NXYN_{XY} within the generation process of XX and YY.

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Updated 2026-06-14

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