Autoresearch feature discovery
Propose Jev questions that turn tasting notes into numeric features for CatBoost.
Research- Result
- Held-out RMSE 1.77 after five rounds, versus 3.09 for the mean baseline
CatBoost needs numbers. A tasting note is not a number. This Jev research use case builds the table from questions nobody wrote by hand.
Round 1 proposed 18 questions and reached 1.87 RMSE. Four more rounds of reading the worst predictions reached 1.77 on 800 held-out reviews.
The strongest feature was overall tone positivity, not a chemistry question. Change PROPOSER_TASK to point the same loop at your own labelled text.
Pipeline
- An LLM proposes add, revise, or drop actions
- Jev answers every new question for all 2,000 notes
- CatBoost trains on the encoded answers
- Worst and best predictions feed the next proposal round
Builder: TypeSafe cookbook. Stack: jev, claude, catboost.