arxivcs.AI2026-07-10
How Does Bayesian Causal Discovery Fail? Characterising Structural Consequences in Linear Gaussian Networks under Latent Confounding
Debargha Ghosh, Silja Renooij, Anna V. Kononova
Bayesian causal discovery is widely used for its ability to quantify epistemic uncertainty over directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) through posterior inference. However, its behaviour under latent confounding remains poorly understood, as existing work typically notes that confounding…