A Closer Look at the Application of Causal Inference in Graph Representation Learning

arXiv:2604.08890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling causal relationships in graph representation learning remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches often draw on theories and methods from causal inference to identify causal subgraphs or mitigate confounders. However, due to the inherent complexity of graph-structured data, these approaches frequently aggregate diverse graph elements into single causal variables, an operation that risks violating the core assumptions of causal i