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:2603.02221v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In clinical tabular prediction, classical machine learning models with feature engineering often outperform neural methods. LLMs are increasi...
By Zizheng Zhang, Yiming Li, Justin Xu, Jinyu Wang, Rui Wang, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, David W Eyre, Jingjing Fu
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