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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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TaskDatasetResultRank
Interventional Outcome PredictionSEMs in-distribution n=1024 (fit samples)
MSE0.551
7
Interventional Outcome PredictionSEMs n=1024 fit samples (out-of-distribution)
MSE0.739
7
Interventional PredictionLaw School Admissions Interventional (test)
MSE0.896
7
Observational Outcome PredictionSEMs out-of-distribution n=1024 fit samples
MSE0.537
7
Outcome PredictionAmazon Sales Interventional (test)
MSE0.455
7
Observational Outcome PredictionSEMs in-distribution n=1024 (fit samples)
MSE0.433
7
Outcome PredictionLaw School Admissions Observational (test)
MSE0.872
7
Outcome PredictionAmazon Sales Observational (test)
MSE0.012
7
Adjacency Matrix PredictionLaw School Admissions
AUROC0.886
6
Ancestral Matrix PredictionLaw School Admissions
AUROC91.2
6
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