Weichwald, S; Gretton, A; Schölkopf, B; Grosse-Wentrup, M; (2016) Recovery of non-linear cause-effect relationships from linearly mixed neuroimaging data. In: PRNI 2016: 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

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Abstract

Causal inference concerns the identification of cause-effect relationships between variables. However, often only linear combinations of variables constitute meaningful causal variables. For example, recovering the signal of a cortical source from electroencephalography requires a well-tuned combination of signals recorded at multiple electrodes. We recently introduced the MERLiN (Mixture Effect Recovery in Linear Networks) algorithm that is able to recover, from an observed linear mixture, a causal variable that is a linear effect of another given variable. Here we relax the assumption of this cause-effect relationship being linear and present an extended algorithm that can pick up non-linear cause-effect relationships. Thus, the main contribution is an algorithm (and ready to use code) that has broader applicability and allows for a richer model class. Furthermore, a comparative analysis indicates that the assumption of linear cause-effect relationships is not restrictive in analysing electroencephalographic data.

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