{"ID":2849358,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25005","arxiv_id":"2510.25005","title":"Cyclic Counterfactuals under Shift-Scale Interventions","abstract":"Most counterfactual inference frameworks traditionally assume acyclic structural causal models (SCMs), i.e. directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). However, many real-world systems (e.g. biological systems) contain feedback loops or cyclic dependencies that violate acyclicity. In this work, we study counterfactual inference in cyclic SCMs under shift-scale interventions, i.e., soft, policy-style changes that rescale and/or shift a variable's mechanism.","short_abstract":"Most counterfactual inference frameworks traditionally assume acyclic structural causal models (SCMs), i.e. directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). However, many real-world systems (e.g. biological systems) contain feedback loops or cyclic dependencies that violate acyclicity. In this work, we study counterfactual inference in...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25005","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25005v2","authors":"[\"Saptarshi Saha\",\"Dhruv Vansraj Rathore\",\"Utpal Garain\"]","published":"2025-10-28T22:03:01Z","proceeding":"cs.AI","tasks":"[\"cs.AI\",\"cs.LG\",\"math.ST\",\"stat.ML\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}