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Toward Efficient Automated Feature Engineering
Kafeng Wang1; Pengyang Wang2; Chengzhong Xu2
2023-04
Conference NameThe 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
Source PublicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
Volume2023-April
Pages1625-1637
Conference Date3-7 April 2023
Conference PlaceAnaheim, CA
CountryUSA
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Abstract

Automated Feature Engineering (AFE) refers to automatically generate and select optimal feature sets for downstream tasks, which has achieved great success in real-world applications. Current AFE methods mainly focus on improving the effectiveness of the produced features, but ignoring the lowefficiency issue for large-scale deployment. Therefore, in this work, we propose a generic framework to improve the efficiency of AFE. Specifically, we construct the AFE pipeline based on reinforcement learning setting, where each feature is assigned an agent to perform feature transformation and selection, and the evaluation score of the produced features in downstream tasks serve as the reward to update the policy. We improve the efficiency of AFE in two perspectives. On the one hand, we develop a Feature Pre-Evaluation (FPE) Model to reduce the sample size and feature size that are two main factors on undermining the efficiency of feature evaluation. On the other hand, we devise a two-stage policy training strategy by running FPE on the pre-evaluation task as the initialization of the policy to avoid training policy from scratch. We conduct comprehensive experiments on 36 datasets in terms of both classification and regression tasks. The results show 2.9% higher performance in average and 2x higher computational efficiency comparing to state-of-the-art AFE methods.

KeywordApproximate Hashing Automated Feature Engineering Minhash Off-policy Reinforcement Learning
DOI10.1109/ICDE55515.2023.00128
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Language英語English
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85167688238
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Document TypeConference paper
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Faculty of Science and Technology
THE STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITY (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU)
Corresponding AuthorKafeng Wang; Chengzhong Xu
Affiliation1.Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Macau, Macau, China, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory of Human-Machine Intelligence-Synergy Systems, She
2.State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, and Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau, China
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Kafeng Wang,Pengyang Wang,Chengzhong Xu. Toward Efficient Automated Feature Engineering[C]:IEEE Computer Society, 2023, 1625-1637.
APA Kafeng Wang., Pengyang Wang., & Chengzhong Xu (2023). Toward Efficient Automated Feature Engineering. Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023-April, 1625-1637.
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