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When Do LLMs Help with Feature Selection? A Systematic Empirical Study

Fateme Memar, Dongjie Wang, Arvin Agah · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.28556 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

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Model seleksi bahasa besar (LLM) dapat memanfaatkan nama fitur semantik bersama dengan statistik ringkasan untuk seleksi fitur tabel, namun tidak jelas kapan informasi tersebut meningkatkan seleksi subset dibandingkan dengan metode statistik yang ditetapkan. Kami menyelidiki pertanyaan ini dalam kerangka kerja 18 dataset yang terdiri dari 10 dataset untuk pelatihan Optimalisasi Kebijakan Relatif Grup (GRPO), 2 untuk validasi checkpoint, dan 6 dataset evaluasi yang dipegang untuk perbandingan lintas tugas. Kami membandingkan lima dataset dasar, selektor Qwen2.5-7B beku dan selektor Llama-3.3-70B, dan dua model Qwen2.5-7B yang disesuaikan dengan GRPO, melaporkan klasifikasi ROC-AUC dan regresi R^2 secara terpisah dan menggunakan peringkat dataset untuk perbandingan lintas tugas. Melalui lima bagian evaluasi benih yang dipilih, selektor kelas

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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) can leverage semantic feature names alongside summary statistics for tabular feature selection, yet it remains unclear when such information improves subset selection relative to established statistical methods. We investigate this question within an 18-dataset framework comprising 10 datasets for Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) training, 2 for checkpoint validation, and 6 held-out evaluation datasets. We compare five classical baselines, frozen Qwen2.5-7B and Llama-3.3-70B selectors, and two GRPO-adapted Qwen2.5-7B models, reporting classification ROC-AUC and regression R^2 separately and using dataset-wise ranks for cross-task comparison. Across five seeded evaluation partitions, classical selectors generally achieve higher predictive performance than the tested 7B LLM/RL selectors, including under a pre-specified ~33% feature budget with strict train-only classical fitting, while the 7B selectors retain compact subsets. A cardinality-matched semantic sensitivity experiment shows that, for Zero-shot Qwen-7B, informative feature names improve regression performance over anonymized and shuffled alternatives (+0.1964 and +0.1606 mean R^2), whereas aggregate classification differences are smaller (+0.0159 and +0.0084 ROC-AUC) and dataset-dependent. These results characterize when semantic information benefits LLM-based feature selection and show that classical selectors remain strong baselines for predictive tabular feature selection.

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Topics: Feature selection, Leverage (statistics), Feature (linguistics), Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Regression

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