Partially Observed Structural Causal Models
Here we introduce Partially Observed Structural Causal Models (POSCMs) that formalize causal systems where latent contexts co-determine both the interaction structure and downstream mechanisms on observed variables. POSCMs provide an extension of structural causal models (SCMs), as a self-contained causal modeling framework for endogenous graphs, allowing for an intervention hierarchy spanning node- and edge-level context and endogenous variable interventions. To enable surgical edge interventions, we adopt a Kolmogorov-Arnold-Sprecher edge-functional decomposition, an existence theorem for representing each node mechanism as a sum of univariate functions of its parents, yielding an explicit parametrization of dyadic functional contributions. We provide an identifiability theory that clarifies which intervention families would suffice to disentangle structure formation from mechanisms. We empirically validate these predictions in a biophysically detailed virtual human retina simulator, constructing intervention protocols that (i) reproduce the non-identifiability predicted when context is latent and no context-level interventions are available, (ii) exhibit structure-mechanism confounding under latent edges when only node interventions are observed, and (iii) recover synaptic input-output relationships via targeted node interventions, consistent with our positive kernel identifiability result. Our work generalizes SCMs in a way that allows it to work in a world closer to the one we live in.
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