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Learning Feature Engineering for Classification
July 2017 • Fatemeh Nargesian, Horst Samulowitz, Udayan Khurana, Elias B. Khalil, Deepak S. Turaga
Feature engineering is the task of improving predictive modelling performance on a dataset by transforming its feature space. Existing approaches to automate this process rely on either transformed feature space exploration through evaluation-guided search, or explicit expansion of datasets with all transformed features followed by feature selection. Such approaches incur high computational costs in runtime and/or memory. We present a novel technique, called Learning Feature Engineering (LFE), for automating featu…