Impact of Adversarial Perturbation Magnitudes on Tabular Foundation Model Performance with Structurally Consistent vs. Non-Causal

Fine-tuning tabular foundation models (TFMs) under data scarcity is challenging, as early stopping on even scarcer validation data often fails to capture true generalization performance. We propose CausalMixFT, a method that enhances fine-tuning robustness and downstream performance by generating structurally consistent synthetic samples using Structural Causal Models (SCMs) fitted on the target dataset. This approach augments limited real data with causally informed synthetic examples, preserving feature dependencies while expanding training diversity. Evaluated across 33 classification datas

Research goal: What is the impact of increasing adversarial perturbation magnitudes on the performance degradation of tabular foundation models fine-tuned with structurally consistent synthetic data versus non-causal synthetic data?

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