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- Run the baseline and the proposed change on identical inputs. Keep other settings fixed and repeat paired runs to expose variation.
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What to measure
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- Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces for bivariate causal discovery
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- 2026-09-15
This is a causal discovery method for bivariate structure identification, not an LLM efficiency, agent, or RAG technique, so it falls outside the reader's production adoption scope unless their work specifically involves causal inference.
Central equations
Original equations, typeset for reading. Paperraft explanations connect the mechanism, its aim, and the evidence.
Denote by the conditional quantile function of . Under Assumption 1, the conditional quantile surface is
equation (2) · §3 The model · proposed method
For a chosen number of non-intercept components, we consider the following causal score:
equation (8) · §5 Causal scoring by transformed quantile-surface fitting · metric
In addition to causal-direction accuracy, we report the normalized directional score gap. For , define
equation (19) · §Appendix D Additional experimental results · metric
equations from arXiv HTML · fetched 2026-10-16
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LRQS replaces location-scale and post-nonlinear bivariate causal models with a low-rank decomposition of a monotonically transformed conditional quantile surface, fitted by alternating rank-constrained approximation and isotonic regression. The cost is a nonparametric, discretization-dependent fitting procedure that is restricted to bivariate cause-effect pairs and requires sufficient samples to estimate conditional quantiles reliably. Identifiability fails for exceptional, fine-tuned cause marginals where the reverse direction is also representable, and the score can degrade under strong nonlinear observation distortion, poor quantile discretization, or small sample sizes.
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data and training
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reproducibility
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What to inspect
Which assumptions does the proposed method need, and where might your workload violate them?
Plan a fair comparison
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Questions for adoption
What implementation and evaluation artifacts are available, and what would you need to supply?
Inside the paper
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Provisional research brief updated 2026-10-18. Paperraft has not reproduced this experiment.