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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate feature engineering in tabular learning. Given task-specific information, LLMs can propose diverse feature transformation operations to enhance downstream model performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhuoyan Li , Aditya Bansal , Jinzhao Li , Shishuang He , Zhuoran Lu , Mutian Zhang , Qin Liu , Yiwei Yang , Swati Jain , Ming Yin , Yunyao Li

Feature transformation aims to reconstruct the feature space of raw features to enhance the performance of downstream models. However, the exponential growth in the combinations of features and operations poses a challenge, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Chandan K. Reddy , Wangyang Ying , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

Tabular machine learning problems often require time-consuming and labor-intensive feature engineering. Recent efforts have focused on using large language models (LLMs) to capitalize on their potential domain knowledge. At the same time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jaris Küken , Lennart Purucker , Frank Hutter

Feature engineering for tabular data remains a critical yet challenging step in machine learning. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been used to automatically generate new features by leveraging their vast knowledge. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Sungwon Han , Sungkyu Park , Seungeon Lee

Crafting effective features is a crucial yet labor-intensive and domain-specific task within machine learning pipelines. Fortunately, recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating various data science…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yanlin Zhang , Ning Li , Quan Gan , Weinan Zhang , David Wipf , Minjie Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs), with their remarkable ability to tackle challenging and unseen reasoning problems, hold immense potential for tabular learning, that is vital for many real-world applications. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sungwon Han , Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O Arik , Tomas Pfister

As the field of automated machine learning (AutoML) advances, it becomes increasingly important to incorporate domain knowledge into these systems. We present an approach for doing so by harnessing the power of large language models (LLMs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Noah Hollmann , Samuel Müller , Frank Hutter

In tabular prediction tasks, tree-based models combined with automated feature engineering methods often outperform deep learning approaches that rely on learned representations. While these feature engineering techniques are effective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jaehyun Nam , Kyuyoung Kim , Seunghyuk Oh , Jihoon Tack , Jaehyung Kim , Jinwoo Shin

In healthcare tabular predictions, classical models with feature engineering often outperform neural approaches. Recent advances in Large Language Models enable the integration of domain knowledge into feature engineering, offering a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zizheng Zhang , Yiming Li , Justin Xu , Jinyu Wang , Rui Wang , Lei Song , Jiang Bian , David W Eyre , Jingjing Fu

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in feature engineering for tabular data, but concerns about their reliability persist, especially due to variability in generated outputs. We introduce a multi-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yebin Lim , Susik Yoon

Existing feature engineering methods based on large language models (LLMs) have not yet been applied to multi-label learning tasks. They lack the ability to model complex label dependencies and are not specifically adapted to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Wanfu Gao , Zebin He , Jun Gao

Feature engineering is mandatory in the machine learning pipeline to obtain robust models. While evolutionary computation is well-known for its great results both in feature selection and feature construction, its methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 João Eduardo Batista

Feature Engineering (FE) is pivotal in automated machine learning (AutoML) but remains a bottleneck for traditional methods, which operate within rigid search spaces and lack domain awareness. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Beicheng Xu , Keyao Ding , Wei Liu , Yupeng Lu , Bin Cui

One of the key tasks in machine learning for tabular data is feature engineering. Although it is vital for improving the performance of models, it demands considerable human expertise and deep domain knowledge, making it labor-intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jeonghyun Ko , Gyeongyun Park , Donghoon Lee , Kyunam Lee

Event log data, recording fine-grained user actions and system events, represent one of the most valuable assets for modern digital services. However, the complexity and heterogeneity of industrial event logs--characterized by large scale,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kun Ouyang , Haoyu Wang , Dong Fang

Time-series prediction involves forecasting future values using machine learning models. Feature engineering, whereby existing features are transformed to make new ones, is critical for enhancing model performance, but is often manual and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Andrew Murray , Danial Dervovic , Michael Cashmore

Large Language Models (LLMs) promise to automate data engineering on tabular data, offering enterprises a valuable opportunity to cut the high costs of manual data handling. But the enterprise domain comes with unique challenges that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jan-Micha Bodensohn , Ulf Brackmann , Liane Vogel , Anupam Sanghi , Carsten Binnig

The representation of feature space is a crucial environment where data points get vectorized and embedded for subsequent modeling. Thus the efficacy of machine learning (ML) algorithms is closely related to the quality of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xinhao Zhang , Jinghan Zhang , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Yuanchun Zhou , Pengfei Wang , Kunpeng Liu

Feature discovery from complex unstructured data is fundamentally a reasoning problem: it requires identifying abstractions that are predictive of a target outcome while avoiding leakage, proxies, and post-outcome signals. With the…

We introduce LLM-Lasso, a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) to guide feature selection in Lasso $\ell_1$ regression. Unlike traditional methods that rely solely on numerical data, LLM-Lasso incorporates…

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