TopoFE: topology-aware LLM-guided Automated Feature Engineering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23286v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:45:00 GMT
• Title: TopoFE: topology-aware LLM-guided Automated Feature Engineering
• Abstract summary: TOPOFE is a topology-aware evolutionary framework for LLM-guided feature engineering.<n>We show consistent improvements over state-of-the-art AutoFE methods across classification and regression tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• 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. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have expanded the expressiveness of AutoFE by enabling feature program generation beyond predefined operator libraries. However, existing LLM-based approaches remain fundamentally limited by stateless generation and homogeneous search: feature proposals are produced from static prompts without accumulating search experience, while single-population exploration quickly converges to dominant transformation patterns and rarely discovers complementary feature compositions across transformation families. We propose TOPOFE, a topology-aware multi-island evolutionary framework for LLM-guided feature engineering. TOPOFE combines family-specialized exploration, adaptive prompt memory, and topology-guided knowledge transfer to efficiently discover diverse and compositional feature programs. Experiments on 29 public tabular datasets demonstrate consistent improvements over state-of-the-art AutoFE methods across classification and regression tasks. Beyond predictive performance, TOPOFE discovers more diverse and transferable feature programs that generalize across multiple downstream predictors and LLM backbones.

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