A Causal Foundation Model for Structure and Outcome Prediction
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We introduce TabPFN-CFM, a causal foundation model that can handle multiple causal problems. TabPFN-CFM predicts both causal structure and outcomes from observational data, supports queries on all three levels of Pearl's Causal Hierarchy and uses known graph structure when available to improve predictions. TabPFN-CFM is trained on synthetic datasets, and generalises to real datasets, demonstrating improved performance over both structural and outcome prediction baselines.
Max Zhu, Martino Mansoldo, Ching-Hao Wang, Stefan Groha• 2026
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| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interventional Outcome Prediction | SEMs in-distribution n=1024 (fit samples) | MSE0.551 | 7 | |
| Interventional Outcome Prediction | SEMs n=1024 fit samples (out-of-distribution) | MSE0.739 | 7 | |
| Interventional Prediction | Law School Admissions Interventional (test) | MSE0.896 | 7 | |
| Observational Outcome Prediction | SEMs out-of-distribution n=1024 fit samples | MSE0.537 | 7 | |
| Outcome Prediction | Amazon Sales Interventional (test) | MSE0.455 | 7 | |
| Observational Outcome Prediction | SEMs in-distribution n=1024 (fit samples) | MSE0.433 | 7 | |
| Outcome Prediction | Law School Admissions Observational (test) | MSE0.872 | 7 | |
| Outcome Prediction | Amazon Sales Observational (test) | MSE0.012 | 7 | |
| Adjacency Matrix Prediction | Law School Admissions | AUROC0.886 | 6 | |
| Ancestral Matrix Prediction | Law School Admissions | AUROC91.2 | 6 |
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