How Usable is Automated Feature Engineering for Tabular Data?

Bastian Schäfer, Lennart Purucker, Maciej Janowski, Frank Hutter

Published: 29 Aug 2025, Last Modified: 29 Aug 2025AutoML 2025 Non-Archival Content TrackEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Submission Type: Short paper
Tldr: Our survey of 53 automated feature engineering methods shows, that they are often unusable in practice, lacking documentation and do not support resource constraints.
Submission Number: 16