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Does Predictive Performance Translate to Causal Performance? Evaluating tabular foundation models as nuisance learners for causal effect estimation
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers evaluated whether tabular foundation models called PFNs can estimate causal effects reliably, finding they outperform conventional methods in complex settings.
- Why it matters
- Data scientists building causal inference pipelines should care when choosing nuisance learners for propensity score and outcome modeling in doubly robust estimation.
- Watch out
- PFNs showed propensity score overfitting at small sample sizes without cross-fitting, and performance gains were most pronounced in complex settings, not simple parametric cases.
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