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We consider the problem of screening features in an ultrahigh-dimensional setting. Using maximum correlation, we develop a novel procedure called MC-SIS for feature screening, and show that MC-SIS possesses the sure screen property without…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-09 Qiming Huang , Yu Zhu

Feature selection, identifying a subset of variables that are relevant for predicting a response, is an important and challenging component of many methods in statistics and machine learning. Feature selection is especially difficult and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-01 Charles K. Fisher , Pankaj Mehta

Ultra-high dimensional longitudinal data are increasingly common and the analysis is challenging both theoretically and methodologically. We offer a new automatic procedure for finding a sparse semivarying coefficient model, which is widely…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-24 Ming-Yen Cheng , Toshio Honda , Jialiang Li , Heng Peng

Unsupervised learning of high-dimensional data is challenging due to irrelevant or noisy features obscuring underlying structures. It's common that only a few features, called the influential features, meaningfully define the clusters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chen Ma , Wanjie Wang , Shuhao Fan

High-dimensional linear and nonlinear models have been extensively used to identify associations between response and explanatory variables. The variable selection problem is commonly of interest in the presence of massive and complex data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-10 Vitara Pungpapong , Min Zhang , Dabao Zhang

An analysis of high-dimensional data can offer a detailed description of a system but is often challenged by the curse of dimensionality. General dimensionality reduction techniques can alleviate such difficulty by extracting a few…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-28 Di Bo , Hoon Hwangbo , Vinit Sharma , Corey Arndt , Stephanie C. TerMaath

A ubiquitous feature of data of our era is their extra-large sizes and dimensions. Analyzing such high-dimensional data poses significant challenges, since the feature dimension is often much larger than the sample size. This thesis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Kai Yang

The goal of supervised feature selection is to find a subset of input features that are responsible for predicting output values. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) allows computationally efficient feature selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-07 Makoto Yamada , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Leonid Sigal , Eric P. Xing , Masashi Sugiyama

Variable selection is a procedure to attain the truly important predictors from inputs. Complex nonlinear dependencies and strong coupling pose great challenges for variable selection in high-dimensional data. In addition, real-world…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-04 Keyao Wang , Huiwen Wang , Jichang Zhao , Lihong Wang

We consider the problem of variable screening in ultra-high dimensional generalized linear models (GLMs) of non-polynomial orders. Since the popular SIS approach is extremely unstable in the presence of contamination and noise, we discuss a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Abhik Ghosh , Erica Ponzi , Torkjel Sandanger , Magne Thoresen

We consider the use of Bayesian information criteria for selection of the graph underlying an Ising model. In an Ising model, the full conditional distributions of each variable form logistic regression models, and variable selection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Rina Foygel Barber , Mathias Drton

Best subset selection (BSS) is widely known as the holy grail for high-dimensional variable selection. Nevertheless, the notorious NP-hardness of BSS substantially restricts its practical application and also discourages its theoretical…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-27 Yongyi Guo , Ziwei Zhu , Jianqing Fan

Feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning, especially for high-dimensional datasets, where irrelevant and redundant features can degrade model performance and increase computational costs. This paper proposes a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan

In this paper, we develop a new sequential regression modeling approach for data streams. Data streams are commonly found around us, e.g in a retail enterprise sales data is continuously collected every day. A demand forecasting model is an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-11 Chitta Ranjan , Samaneh Ebrahimi , Kamran Paynabar

Variable selection is of increasing importance to address the difficulties of high dimensionality in many scientific areas. In this paper, we demonstrate a property for distance covariance, which is incorporated in a novel feature screening…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-03 Jing Kong , Sijian Wang , Grace Wahba

High-dimensional, low sample-size (HDLSS) data problems have been a topic of immense importance for the last couple of decades. There is a vast literature that proposed a wide variety of approaches to deal with this situation, among which…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-09 Kaixu Yang , Tapabrata Maiti

Feature screening for ultrahigh-dimension, in general, proceeds with two essential steps. The first step is measuring and ranking the marginal dependence between response and covariates, and the second is determining the threshold. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-28 Linsui Deng , Yilin Zhang

Top-$N$ recommender systems typically utilize side information to address the problem of data sparsity. As nowadays side information is growing towards high dimensionality, the performances of existing methods deteriorate in terms of both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Yifan Chen , Xiang Zhao

As a computationally fast and working efficient tool, sure independence screening has received much attention in solving ultrahigh dimensional problems. This paper contributes two robust sure screening approaches that simultaneously take…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-27 Xiaochao Xia

In this paper, we investigate dynamic feature selection within multivariate time-series scenario, a common occurrence in clinical prediction monitoring where each feature corresponds to a bio-test result. Many existing feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yutong Chen , Jiandong Gao , Ji Wu