AI RESEARCH

TabCausal: Pretraining Across Causal Environments for Tabular Causal Discovery

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.31156v1 Announce Type: new Causal discovery aims to recover directed causal relations from observational and interventional data, providing a basis for mechanistic understanding and reliable decision-making. Causal discovery foundation models (CDFMs) seek to amortize this problem by mapping a dataset directly to a causal graph in a single forward pass, avoiding per-dataset testing, search, or optimization. However, existing CDFMs remain limited, often failing to consistently match strong classical methods, and we find that a key bottleneck is how causal pre