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Data containing human or social attributes may over- or under-represent groups with respect to salient social attributes such as gender or race, which can lead to biases in downstream applications. This paper presents an algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 L. Elisa Celis , Vijay Keswani , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

With the universal adoption of machine learning in healthcare, the potential for the automation of societal biases to further exacerbate health disparities poses a significant risk. We explore algorithmic fairness from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Md Rahat Shahriar Zawad , Peter Washington

The selection of features that are relevant for a prediction or classification problem is an important problem in many domains involving high-dimensional data. Selecting features helps fighting the curse of dimensionality, improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-04 Michel Verleysen , Fabrice Rossi , Damien François

Analyzing large datasets to select optimal features is one of the most important research areas in machine learning and data mining. This feature selection procedure involves dimensionality reduction which is crucial in enhancing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhila Yaseen Taha , Abdulhady Abas Abdullah , Tarik A. Rashid

Feature selection eliminates redundancy among features to improve downstream task performance while reducing computational overhead. Existing methods often struggle to capture intricate feature interactions and adapt across diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rui Liu , Tao Zhe , Yanjie Fu , Feng Xia , Ted Senator , Dongjie Wang

Nowadays, feature selection is frequently used in machine learning when there is a risk of performance degradation due to overfitting or when computational resources are limited. During the feature selection process, the subset of features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Sergey A. Saltykov

Given the increasing complexity of omics datasets, a key challenge is not only improving classification performance but also enhancing the transparency and reliability of model decisions. Effective model performance and feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Diego Perazzolo , Pietro Fanton , Ilaria Barison , Marny Fedrigo , Annalisa Angelini , Chiara Castellani , Enrico Grisan

Model selection is a strategy aimed at creating accurate and robust models. A key challenge in designing these algorithms is identifying the optimal model for classifying any particular input sample. This paper addresses this challenge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 James Kotary , Vincenzo Di Vito , Ferdinando Fioretto

The ensemble methods are meta-algorithms that combine several base machine learning techniques to increase the effectiveness of the classification. Many existing committees of classifiers use the classifier selection process to determine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Robert Burduk

Selective classification is a powerful tool for automated decision-making in high-risk scenarios, allowing classifiers to act only when confident and abstain when uncertainty is high. Given a target accuracy, our goal is to minimize…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Mohamed Ndaoud , Peter Radchenko , Bradley Rava

Feature selection is one of the most relevant processes in any methodology for creating a statistical learning model. Usually, existing algorithms establish some criterion to select the most influential variables, discarding those that do…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-10 Carlos Sebastián , Carlos E. González-Guillén

It is oftentimes impossible to understand how machine learning models reach a decision. While recent research has proposed various technical approaches to provide some clues as to how a learning model makes individual decisions, they cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Lin Lin , Sui Huang , Xinyu Xing

The transcriptomics of cancer tumors are characterized with tens of thousands of gene expression features. Patient prognosis or tumor stage can be assessed by machine learning techniques like supervised classification tasks given a gene…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Martin Palazzo , Patricio Yankilevich , Pierre Beauseroy

For many practical problems, the regression models follow the strong heredity property (also known as the marginality), which means they include parent main effects when a second-order effect is present. Existing methods rely mostly on…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-28 Kedong Chen , William Li , Sijian Wang

We propose a modification of linear discriminant analysis, referred to as compressive regularized discriminant analysis (CRDA), for analysis of high-dimensional datasets. CRDA is specially designed for feature elimination purpose and can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-12 Muhammad Naveed Tabassum , Esa Ollila

There are many problems in machine learning and data mining which are equivalent to selecting a non-redundant, high "quality" set of objects. Recommender systems, feature selection, and data summarization are among many applications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Mark Schmidt

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 used in machine learning to improve predictions, decrease computation time, reduce noise, and tune models based on limited sample data. In this article, we present FeatureExplorer, a visual analytics system that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jieqiong Zhao , Morteza Karimzadeh , Ali Masjedi , Taojun Wang , Xiwen Zhang , Melba M. Crawford , David S. Ebert

Sparse Bayesian learning is a state-of-the-art supervised learning algorithm that can choose a subset of relevant samples from the input data and make reliable probabilistic predictions. However, in the presence of high-dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Bingbing Jiang , Chang Li , Maarten de Rijke , Xin Yao , Huanhuan Chen

Stacking, a potent ensemble learning method, leverages a meta-model to harness the strengths of multiple base models, thereby enhancing prediction accuracy. Traditional stacking techniques typically utilize established learning models, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Wei Wu , Liang Tang , Zhongjie Zhao , Chung-Piaw Teo