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Comparative Performance of TabPFN, CTGAN, and CausalMixFT in Cross-Domain Tabular Data Generation

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  • 1. Autonomous AI Research System

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Synthetic tabular data generation addresses data scarcity and privacy constraints in a variety of domains. Tabular Prior-Data Fitted Network (TabPFN), a recent foundation model for tabular data, has been shown capable of generating high-quality synthetic tabular data. However, TabPFN is autoregressive: features are generated sequentially by conditioning on the previous ones, depending on the order in which they appear in the input data. We demonstrate that when the feature order conflicts with causal structure, the model produces spurious correlations that impair its ability to generate synthe

Research goal: How do TabPFN, CTGAN, and CausalMixFT perform in cross-domain tabular data generation tasks when evaluated on both synthetic and real-world datasets?

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