Topological Residual Asymmetry for Bivariate Causal Direction
Inferring causal direction from purely observational bivariate data is fragile: many methods commit to a direction even in ambiguous or near non-identifiable regimes. We propose Topological Residual Asymmetry (TRA), a geometry-based criterion for additive-noise models. TRA compares the shapes of two cross-fitted regressor-residual clouds after rank-based copula standardization: in the correct direction, residuals are approximately independent, producing a two-dimensional bulk, while in the reverse direction -- especially under low noise -- the cloud concentrates near a one-dimensional tube. We quantify this bulk-tube contrast using a 0D persistent-homology functional, computed efficiently from Euclidean MST edge-length profiles. We prove consistency in a triangular-array small-noise regime, extend the method to fixed noise via a binned variant (TRA-s), and introduce TRA-C, a confounding-aware abstention rule calibrated by a Gaussian-copula plug-in bootstrap. Extensive experiments across many challenging synthetic and real-data scenarios demonstrate the method's superiority.
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