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Discrete Learning Of DAGs Via Backpropagation
Andrew Wren · Pasquale Minervini · Luca Franceschi · Valentina Zantedeschi

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Recently continuous relaxations have been proposed in order to learn directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) by backpropagation, instead of combinatorial optimization. However, a number of techniques for fully discrete backpropagation could instead be applied. In this paper, we explore this direction and propose DAG-DB, a framework for learning DAGs by Discrete Backpropagation, based on the architecture of Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation (I-MLE). DAG-DB performs competitively using either of two fully discrete backpropagation techniques, I-MLE itself, or straight-through estimation.

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Andrew Wren
Pasquale Minervini (University College London)
Luca Franceschi (Amazon Development Center Germany)
Valentina Zantedeschi (ServiceNow)

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