arXiv Machine Learning

Adaptive Protection for Evolutionary Feature Construction in Symbolic Regression with Application to Credit Classification

arXiv:2608. 14209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolutionary feature construction has shown strong promise in symbolic regression by automatically discovering informative transformations of input features that enhance a simple base learner.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Bridging Expert Knowledge and Automated Feature Engineering via Self-Evolution

arXiv:2606. 08800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In high-stakes settings such as brand compliance, clinical care, and content moderation, machine learning cannot be deployed as opaque oracles: practitioners inspect the features driving model decisions, and models must leverage the expert documentation governing these domains.

By Varun Khurana, Vijval Ekbote, Vashu Chauhan, Yaman Kumar Singla, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Balaji Krishnamurthy
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

An Empirical Study of Feature Selection Granularity

arXiv:2607. 24145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature selection aims to identify the most informative and relevant features for a given dataset, either in terms of capturing the underlying data structure and distribution better, or with respect to the performance on a downstream task.

By Muhammad Rajabinasab, Arthur Zimek
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

MinShap: A Shapley-Based Framework for Feature Redundancy

arXiv:2604. 15107v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shapley values provide a flexible framework for attributing feature contributions to model predictions, but they are not naturally suited for feature selection: a feature may receive a positive attribution even when it is redundant given the remaining variables.

By Chenghui Zheng, Garvesh Raskutti
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Beyond Noise: A Hypothesis Testing Approach to Robust Feature Selection

arXiv:2511. 20851v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Feature selection remains difficult in modern high-dimensional settings, and established methods such as Boruta and Recursive Feature Elimination are either computationally costly or lack a statistically justified stopping criterion for their importance scores.

By Mousam Sinha, Tirtha Sarathi Ghosh, Koushik Biswas, Ridam Pal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Deliberate Evolution: Agentic Reasoning for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLMs

arXiv:2606. 04360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) discovers compact mathematical expressions from data, yet recent LLM-based evolutionary methods remain sample-inefficient because they rely mainly on scalar feedback such as MSE.

By Xinyu Pang, Zhanke Zhou, Xuan Li, Fangrui Lv, Shanshan Wei, Sen Cui, Bo Han, Changshui Zhang