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arXiv 提交日期: 2026-03-18
📄 Abstract - The Causal Uncertainty Principle: Manifold Tearing and the Topological Limits of Counterfactual Interventions

Judea Pearl's do-calculus provides a foundation for causal inference, but its translation to continuous generative models remains fraught with geometric challenges. We establish the fundamental limits of such interventions. We define the Counterfactual Event Horizon and prove the Manifold Tearing Theorem: deterministic flows inevitably develop finite-time singularities under extreme interventions. We establish the Causal Uncertainty Principle for the trade-off between intervention extremity and identity preservation. Finally, we introduce Geometry-Aware Causal Flow (GACF), a scalable algorithm that utilizes a topological radar to bypass manifold tearing, validated on high-dimensional scRNA-seq data.

顶级标签: theory machine learning model training
详细标签: causal inference generative models manifold learning counterfactuals topological constraints 或 搜索:

因果不确定性原理:流形撕裂与反事实干预的拓扑极限 / The Causal Uncertainty Principle: Manifold Tearing and the Topological Limits of Counterfactual Interventions


1️⃣ 一句话总结

这篇论文发现,在连续生成模型中进行强力的因果干预时,数据的内在几何结构会像纸被撕破一样发生不可避免的破坏,并提出了一个权衡干预强度与数据保真度的基本原理,以及一种能绕过此破坏的新算法。

源自 arXiv: 2603.17385