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The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

Many recent few-shot learning methods concentrate on designing novel model architectures. In this paper, we instead show that with a simple backbone convolutional network we can even surpass state-of-the-art classification accuracy. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Wei Shen , Ziqiang Shi , Jun Sun

In machine learning and pattern recognition, feature selection has been a hot topic in the literature. Unsupervised feature selection is challenging due to the loss of labels which would supply the related information.How to define an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Chang Liu , Yi Xu

Feature selection is one of the most fundamental problems in machine learning. An extensive body of work on information-theoretic feature selection exists which is based on maximizing mutual information between subsets of features and class…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-10 Shuyang Gao , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

The selection of features is an essential data preprocessing stage in data mining. The core principle of feature selection seems to be to pick a subset of possible features by excluding features with almost no predictive information as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mehrdad Rostami , Kamal Berahmand , Saman Forouzandeh

High-dimensional feature selection is a central problem in a variety of application domains such as machine learning, image analysis, and genomics. In this paper, we propose graph-based tests as a useful basis for feature selection. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-13 Swarnadip Ghosh , Somabha Mukherjee , Divyansh Agarwal , Yichen He , Mingzhi Song , Xuejiao Pei

Feature selection is important step in machine learning since it has shown to improve prediction accuracy while depressing the curse of dimensionality of high dimensional data. The neural networks have experienced tremendous success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Peter Bugata , Peter Drotar

Given a set of data, biclustering aims at finding simultaneous partitions in biclusters of its samples and of the features which are used for representing the samples. Consistent biclusterings allow to obtain correct classifications of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-18 Antonio Mucherino , Sonia Cafieri

Time series classification is an important task in its own right, and it is often a precursor to further downstream analytics. To date, virtually all works in the literature have used either shape-based classification using a distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Sara Alaee , Alireza Abdoli , Christian Shelton , Amy C. Murillo , Alec C. Gerry , Eamonn Keogh

In Machine Learning, feature selection entails selecting a subset of the available features in a dataset to use for model development. There are many motivations for feature selection, it may result in better models, it may provide insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Padraig Cunningham , Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan , Sarah Jane Delany

Machine learning algorithms are designed to capture complex relationships between features. In this context, the high dimensionality of data often results in poor model performance, with the risk of overfitting. Feature selection, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Paolo Bonetti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

Pattern analysis often requires a pre-processing stage for extracting or selecting features in order to help the classification, prediction, or clustering stage discriminate or represent the data in a better way. The reason for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Maria N. Samad , Sayema Asif Mashhadi , Tania Kapoor , Wahab Ali , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Feature selection is popular for obtaining small, interpretable, yet highly accurate prediction models. Conventional feature-selection methods typically yield one feature set only, which might not suffice in some scenarios. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jakob Bach

Incorporating feature selection into a classification or regression method often carries a number of advantages. In this paper we formalize feature selection specifically from a discriminative perspective of improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Tony S. Jebara , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Many computer vision and medical imaging problems are faced with learning from large-scale datasets, with millions of observations and features. In this paper we propose a novel efficient learning scheme that tightens a sparsity constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-07 Adrian Barbu , Yiyuan She , Liangjing Ding , Gary Gramajo

Multiobjective feature selection seeks to determine the most discriminative feature subset by simultaneously optimizing two conflicting objectives: minimizing the number of selected features and the classification error rate. The goal is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhenxing Zhang , Qianxiang An , Yilei Wang , Chenfeng Wu , Baoling Dong , Chunjie Zhou

For many data-intensive tasks, feature selection is an important preprocessing step. However, most existing methods do not directly and intuitively explore the intrinsic discriminative information of features. We propose a novel feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chunxu Cao , Qiang Zhang

With an exponentially increasing amount of astronomical data, the complexity and dimension of astronomical data are likewise growing rapidly. Extracting information from such data becomes a critical and challenging problem. For example,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 H. Zheng , Y. Zhang

Feature selection plays an important role in the data mining process. It is needed to deal with the excessive number of features, which can become a computational burden on the learning algorithms. It is also necessary, even when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Tarek Amr Abdallah , Beatriz de La Iglesia

Remote sensing research focusing on feature selection has long attracted the attention of the remote sensing community because feature selection is a prerequisite for image processing and various applications. Different feature selection…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi , Bo Wu , C. Chen