Reconstructing directional causal networks with random forest: Causality meeting machine learning
Siyang Leng, Ziwei Xu, Huanfei Ma · Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · 2019
Inspired by the decision tree algorithm in machine learning, a novel causal network reconstruction framework is proposed with the name Importance Causal Analysis (ICA). The ICA framework is designed in a network level and fills the gap between traditional mutual causality detection methods and the reconstruction of causal networks. The potential of the method to identify the true causal relations in complex networks is validated by both benchmark systems and real-world data sets.