期刊
CHAOS
卷 31, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0054228
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- European Research Council project CUNDA [694509]
- European Research Council (ERC) [694509] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
The study introduces a new framework for inferring causal relationships in complex nonlinear systems, which provides complete information theoretic disentanglement and handles nonlinear causal interactions. The framework is built upon information theoretic measures that gradually increase the information available about the target process. Additionally, it can analyze systems that cannot be represented on directed acyclic graphs.
Many frameworks exist to infer cause and effect relations in complex nonlinear systems, but a complete theory is lacking. A new framework is presented that is fully nonlinear, provides a complete information theoretic disentanglement of causal processes, allows for nonlinear interactions between causes, identifies the causal strength of missing or unknown processes, and can analyze systems that cannot be represented on directed acyclic graphs. The basic building blocks are information theoretic measures such as (conditional) mutual information and a new concept called certainty that monotonically increases with the information available about the target process. The framework is presented in detail and compared with other existing frameworks, and the treatment of confounders is discussed. While there are systems with structures that the framework cannot disentangle, it is argued that any causal framework that is based on integrated quantities will miss out potentially important information of the underlying probability density functions. The framework is tested on several highly simplified stochastic processes to demonstrate how blocking and gateways are handled and on the chaotic Lorentz 1963 system. We show that the framework provides information on the local dynamics but also reveals information on the larger scale structure of the underlying attractor. Furthermore, by applying it to real observations related to the El-Nino-Southern-Oscillation system, we demonstrate its power and advantage over other methodologies. (c) 2021 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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