Heres one paper that I can immediately think of, https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7495. The authors use a synthetic dataset to select and enginer features of a “real” dataset. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but could be a step in the right direction.
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Reply to Can feature engineering avoid overfitting? by Constant-Cranberry29
Heres one paper that I can immediately think of, https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7495. The authors use a synthetic dataset to select and enginer features of a “real” dataset. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but could be a step in the right direction.