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We propose a feature selection method that finds non-redundant features from a large and high-dimensional data in nonlinear way. Specifically, we propose a nonlinear extension of the non-negative least-angle regression (LARS) called…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-11 Makoto Yamada , Avishek Saha , Hua Ouyang , Dawei Yin , Yi Chang

We introduce the localized Lasso, which is suited for learning models that are both interpretable and have a high predictive power in problems with high dimensionality $d$ and small sample size $n$. More specifically, we consider a function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-17 Makoto Yamada , Koh Takeuchi , Tomoharu Iwata , John Shawe-Taylor , Samuel Kaski

The applications of traditional statistical feature selection methods to high-dimension, low sample-size data often struggle and encounter challenging problems, such as overfitting, curse of dimensionality, computational infeasibility, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Kexuan Li , Fangfang Wang , Lingli Yang , Ruiqi Liu

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning and knowledge discovery. By selecting the most informative features and eliminating irrelevant ones, the performance of learning algorithms can be improved and the extraction of…

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

Feature selection is a dimensionality reduction technique that selects a subset of representative features from high dimensional data by eliminating irrelevant and redundant features. Recently, feature selection combined with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

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

Embedded Feature Selection (FS) is a classical approach for interpretable machine learning, aiming to identify the most relevant features of a dataset while simultaneously training the model. We consider an approach based on a hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Federico D'Onofrio , Yuri Faenza , Laura Palagi

This paper studies simultaneous feature selection and extraction in supervised and unsupervised learning. We propose and investigate selective reduced rank regression for constructing optimal explanatory factors from a parsimonious subset…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-27 Yiyuan She

One main obstacle for the wide use of deep learning in medical and engineering sciences is its interpretability. While neural network models are strong tools for making predictions, they often provide little information about which features…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-06 Vu Dinh , Lam Si Tung Ho

Feature selection (FS) is assumed to improve predictive performance and identify meaningful features in high-dimensional datasets. Surprisingly, small random subsets of features (0.02-1%) match or outperform the predictive performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Bhavesh Neekhra , Debayan Gupta , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Feature selection (FS) is a process which attempts to select more informative features. In some cases, too many redundant or irrelevant features may overpower main features for classification. Feature selection can remedy this problem and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-07 A. Nisthana Parveen , H. Hannah Inbarani , E. N. Sathishkumar

This work proposed kernel selection approaches for probabilistic classifiers based on features produced by the convolutional encoder of a variational autoencoder. Particularly, the developed methodologies allow the selection of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Fábio Mendonça , Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa , Fernando Morgado-Dias , Antonio G. Ravelo-García

We introduce LLM-Lasso, a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) to guide feature selection in Lasso $\ell_1$ regression. Unlike traditional methods that rely solely on numerical data, LLM-Lasso incorporates…

Feature selection is playing an increasingly significant role with respect to many computer vision applications spanning from object recognition to visual object tracking. However, most of the recent solutions in feature selection are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Alessandro Vinciarelli

The goal of feature selection is to choose the optimal subset of features for a recognition task by evaluating the importance of each feature, thereby achieving effective dimensionality reduction. Currently, proposed feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zhenxing Zhang , Jun Ge , Zheng Wei , Chunjie Zhou , Yilei Wang

Latent representations are critical for the performance and robustness of machine learning models, as they encode the essential features of data in a compact and informative manner. However, in vision tasks, these representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bruno Corcuera , Carlos Eiras-Franco , Brais Cancela

Feature selection plays a pivotal role in learning, particularly in areas were parsimonious features can provide insight into the underlying process, such as biology. Recent approaches for non-linear feature selection employing greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Dimitrios Athanasakis , John Shawe-Taylor , Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes

A simple and intuitive method for feature selection consists of choosing the feature subset that maximizes a nonparametric measure of dependence between the response and the features. A popular proposal from the literature uses the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-12 Keli Liu , Feng Ruan

Feature selection methods have an important role on the readability of data and the reduction of complexity of learning algorithms. In recent years, a variety of efforts are investigated on feature selection problems based on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

It is more and more frequently the case in applications that the data we observe come from one or more random variables taking values in an infinite dimensional space, e.g. curves. The need to have tools adapted to the nature of these data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Angelina Roche