Paper ID: 2111.15155 • Published Nov 30, 2021

gCastle: A Python Toolbox for Causal Discovery

Keli Zhang, Shengyu Zhu, Marcus Kalander, Ignavier Ng, Junjian Ye, Zhitang Chen, Lujia Pan
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\texttt{gCastle} is an end-to-end Python toolbox for causal structure learning. It provides functionalities of generating data from either simulator or real-world dataset, learning causal structure from the data, and evaluating the learned graph, together with useful practices such as prior knowledge insertion, preliminary neighborhood selection, and post-processing to remove false discoveries. Compared with related packages, \texttt{gCastle} includes many recently developed gradient-based causal discovery methods with optional GPU acceleration. \texttt{gCastle} brings convenience to researchers who may directly experiment with the code as well as practitioners with graphical user interference. Three real-world datasets in telecommunications are also provided in the current version. \texttt{gCastle} is available under Apache License 2.0 at \url{https://github.com/huawei-noah/trustworthyAI/tree/master/gcastle}.