arXiv:2602.02025cs.DBcs.LG2026-02

用智能方法自动补全关系数据中的特征,提升模型效果且更省资源。

Hippasus: Effective and Efficient Automatic Feature Augmentation for Machine Learning Tasks on Relational Data

  • 结合统计信号与大模型按需推理,智能发现可加入的表
  • 在真实数据上比现有方法特征准确率最高提升26.8%
  • 适合处理多表关联复杂场景,兼顾效果与运行成本

机器学习模型的效果高度依赖特征质量,但在真实场景中,有用特征常分散在多个关系型表中。特征增强通过自动发现并连接额外表来丰富基础表的预测特征。然而,在包含多跳关系的复杂模式下,该任务面临挑战:需探索大量连接路径、执行昂贵的连接操作,并从噪声结果中筛选有效特征。现有方法或效果有限,或效率低下。我们提出Hippasus,一种面向关系模式的、成本感知且由大模型增强的特征发现框架。它融合轻量级统计信号与自适应语义推理,仅在必要时调用大模型;引入高效的多路连接执行与跨路径特征合并机制;采用混合特征选择策略,结合统计相关性与语义优化。在真实数据集上的实验表明,Hippasus相较最优方法特征增强准确率最高提升26.8%,同时实现良好的效果-成本权衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

ML models critically depend on feature quality, yet in real-world settings, useful features are often distributed across multiple relational tables rather than a single dataset. Feature augmentation addresses this problem by automatically discovering and joining additional tables to enrich a base table with predictive features. However, scaling feature augmentation to complex schemas with many tables and multi-hop relationships is challenging. It requires exploring a large space of join paths, executing costly joins, and selecting useful features from noisy results. Existing approaches suffer from either limited effectiveness or efficiency. Restricting exploration to simple joins limits predictive performance, while more expressive methods rely on expensive training data, lack scalability, or fail to fully exploit schema-level semantics. We present Hippasus, a cost-aware, LLM-augmented feature discovery framework over relational schemas that addresses these challenges. Hippasus combines lightweight statistical signals with adaptive semantic reasoning, invoking stronger (LLM-based) analysis only when necessary. It further introduces efficient multi-way join execution with cross-path feature consolidation, and a hybrid feature selection strategy that integrates statistical relevance with semantic refinement. Experiments on real-world datasets show that Hippasus improves feature augmentation accuracy by up to 26.8% over state-of-the-art methods, while achieving a favorable effectiveness-cost tradeoff.

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