Researchers have developed a methodology called causality-informed neural network (CINN) to improve the predictive performance of neural networks.
CINN leverages three steps to encode hierarchical causality structure into the neural network, discovered through causal discovery from observational data.
The discovered causal relationships are systematically encoded into the neural network's architecture and loss function, preserving the relative order and co-learning of different types of nodes.
Computational experiments show that CINN outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in predictive performance, highlighting the value of integrating causal knowledge.