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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 9, 2026
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This is an unrefereed preprint describing a computational framework for automated feature transformation on tabular data. The work proposes hierarchical, permutation-invariant embeddings and reinforcement learning–based search to improve feature engineering, but reports no quantitative results, clinical outcomes, or peer-reviewed validation. It is not applicable to clinical practice without independent empirical validation and peer review.
Preprint.
This is an unrefereed preprint describing a computational framework for automated feature transformation on tabular data. The work proposes hierarchical, permutation-invariant embeddings and reinforcement learning–based search to improve feature engineering, but reports no quantitative results, clinical outcomes, or peer-reviewed validation. It is not applicable to clinical practice without independent empirical validation and peer review.
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This is a methodological preprint on arXiv describing a machine learning framework for tabular data feature transformation; it has not undergone peer review and presents no clinical data or human studies.
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Feature transformation improves predictive performance on tabular data by constructing informative abstractions from raw features. Recent generative approaches encode transformation knowledge into continuous embedding spaces for efficient exploration of candidate strategies, but face three key limitations: (1) overlooking hierarchical relationships between low-level features, operations, and high-level abstractions; (2) enforcing order-sensitive embeddings on inherently permutation-invariant transformation sequences, thereby introducing systematic bias; and (3) relying on gradient-based search, which is ill-suited to non-convex transformation spaces. We propose a framework with two complementary components. First, a permutation-invariant hierarchical module captures interactions across features, operations, and abstraction levels, with a self-attention pooling mechanism that maps semantically equivalent structures to consistent embeddings aligned with downstream performance. Second, a policy-guided multi-objective reinforcement learning strategy initializes the search from empirically strong seeds and jointly optimizes predictive accuracy and transformation efficiency. Extensive experiments on diverse tabular benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our framework against strong baselines. Our code and data are publicly available at: https://github.com/RayLiu1103/PHER.
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