Large language models are increasingly used as open-ended search operators in evolutionary optimization. We introduce Evolutionary Feature Engineering (EFE), a framework for using LLM-based evolution to discover preprocessing transformations for structured data.
arXiv:2606. 02384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in tabular machine learning has largely focused on increasingly sophisticated model architectures.
By Andrej Tschalzev, Nick Erickson, Yuyang Wang, Huzefa Rangwala, Stefan L\"udtke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christian Bartelt
arXiv:2603. 02221v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In clinical tabular prediction, classical machine learning models with feature engineering often outperform neural methods.
By Zizheng Zhang, Yiming Li, Justin Xu, Jinyu Wang, Rui Wang, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, David W Eyre, Jingjing Fu
arXiv:2607. 00154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evolutionary neural architecture design for multivariate time-series forecasting remains underexplored, with most approaches relying on fixed Transformer architectures despite substantial variation across tasks and forecasting settings.
By AbdElRahman ElSaid, Damir Pulatov
arXiv:2607. 23286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic feature engineering (AutoFE) for tabular learning can be naturally formulated as a program synthesis problem, where the objective is to discover predictive feature transformations from an exponentially large search space.
By Sha Li, Naren Ramakrishnan
arXiv:2608. 10149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the diversity of real-world time series, no single forecasting model consistently dominates across all samples.
By Xu Zhang, Chang Xu, Hui Sun, Nan Ma, Zijian Zhang, Peng Wang, Wei Wang, Li Zhao
arXiv:2607. 15774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) for time series has seen significant algorithmic growth, but its utility in providing measurable performance gains for downstream tasks remains under-explored.
By Davide Italo Serramazza, Thach Le Nguyen, Georgiana Ifrim
arXiv:2608. 04174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series data are ubiquitous in practical applications, where classification (TSC) and extrinsic regression (TSER) have emerged as essential tasks for obtaining value from temporal sequences.
By Gabriel da Costa Merlin, Diego Furtado Silva
arXiv:2606. 30410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for predictive machine learning on tabular data have recently gained significant traction in academia and industry.
By Lennart Purucker, Andrej Tschalzev, Nick Erickson, Gioia Blayer, David Holzm\"uller, Alan Arazi, Alexander Pfefferle, Mustafa Tajjar, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Frank Hutter
arXiv:2606. 16337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive modeling for clinical tabular data is central to clinical decision support and therefore requires not only strong predictive performance but also transparent decision logic.
By Wei Xu, Ke Yang, Gang Luo, Keli Zheng, Lingyan Hu, Jing Wang, Kefeng Li
arXiv:2608. 16416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated machine learning (AutoML) systems search for pipelines within a space of preprocessing operators, learners, and hyper-parameters specified in advance: they can select and tune known components, but cannot produce structure outside that space.
By Sofoklis Kitharidis, Cor J. Veenman, Jan N. van Rijn, Thomas B\"ack, Niki van Stein
arXiv:2605. 30119v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Survival analysis concerns the task of predicting the time until an event occurs.
By Thalea Schlender, Peter A. N. Bosman, Tanja Alderliesten