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Feature selection in reinforcement learning (RL), i.e. choosing basis functions such that useful approximations of the unkown value function can be obtained, is one of the main challenges in scaling RL to real-world applications. Here we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Tobias Jung , Peter Stone

Within a supervised classification framework, labeled data are used to learn classifier parameters. Prior to that, it is generally required to perform dimensionality reduction via feature extraction. These preprocessing steps have motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Adrien Lagrange , Mathieu Fauvel , Stéphane May , Nicolas Dobigeon

Feature selection is essential for high-dimensional biomedical data, enabling stronger predictive performance, reduced computational cost, and improved interpretability in precision medicine applications. Existing approaches face notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xiaoyan Sun , Qingyu Meng , Yalu Wen

In the field of data mining, how to deal with high-dimensional data is an inevitable problem. Unsupervised feature selection has attracted more and more attention because it does not rely on labels. The performance of spectral-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhengxin Li , Feiping Nie , Jintang Bian , Xuelong Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results for semi-supervised learning tasks on graphs such as node classification. Despite the great success of GNNs, many real-world graphs are often sparsely and noisily labeled, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Enyan Dai , Charu Aggarwal , Suhang Wang

Feature selection has drawn much attention over the last decades in machine learning because it can reduce data dimensionality while maintaining the original physical meaning of features, which enables better interpretability than feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yiwen Liao , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Extracting an understanding of the underlying system from high dimensional data is a growing problem in science. Discovering informative and meaningful features is crucial for clustering, classification, and low dimensional data embedding.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-10 Samuel Melton , Sharad Ramanathan

Feature selection is an important problem in high-dimensional data analysis and classification. Conventional feature selection approaches focus on detecting the features based on a redundancy criterion using learning and feature searching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Alex Pappachen James , Sima Dimitrijev

Supervised learning of deep neural networks heavily relies on large-scale datasets annotated by high-quality labels. In contrast, mislabeled samples can significantly degrade the generalization of models and result in memorizing samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables multiple data owners, each holding a different subset of features about largely overlapping sets of data sample(s), to jointly train a useful global model. Feature selection (FS) is important to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Anran Li , Hongyi Peng , Lan Zhang , Jiahui Huang , Qing Guo , Han Yu , Yang Liu

Unsupervised dimension selection is an important problem that seeks to reduce dimensionality of data, while preserving the most useful characteristics. While dimensionality reduction is commonly utilized to construct low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-01 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Rushil Anirudh , Rahul Sridhar , Peer-Timo Bremer

Large-scale online marketplaces and recommender systems serve as critical technological support for e-commerce development. In industrial recommender systems, features play vital roles as they carry information for downstream models.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xianquan Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Jieming Zhu , Qinglin Jia , Zhenhua Dong , Kai Zhang

Feature selection is a widely used dimension reduction technique to select feature subsets because of its interpretability. Many methods have been proposed and achieved good results, in which the relationships between adjacent data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Yan Min , Mao Ye , Liang Tian , Yulin Jian , Ce Zhu , Shangming Yang

Feature selection problems have been extensively studied for linear estimation, for instance, Lasso, but less emphasis has been placed on feature selection for non-linear functions. In this study, we propose a method for feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yutaro Yamada , Ofir Lindenbaum , Sahand Negahban , Yuval Kluger

When processing high-dimensional datasets, a common pre-processing step is feature selection. Filter-based feature selection algorithms are not tailored to a specific classification method, but rather rank the relevance of each feature with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shir Friedman , Gonen Singer , Neta Rabin

Detection of a signal under noise is a classical signal processing problem. When monitoring spatial phenomena under a fixed budget, i.e., either physical, economical or computational constraints, the selection of a subset of available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Mario Coutino , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

In semi-supervised learning (SSL) for enhancing the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) with unlabeled data, introducing mutually independent decision factors for cross-validation is regarded as an effective strategy to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Long Wang , Kai Liu

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS), which selects informative features from multi-view unlabeled data, has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. Although great efforts have been devoted to MUFS, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Minghui Lu , Yanyong Huang , Minbo Ma , Jinyuan Chang , Dongjie Wang , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

Obtaining data with meaningful labels is often costly and error-prone. In this situation, semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches are interesting, as they leverage assumptions about the unlabeled data to make up for the limited amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Bruno Klaus de Aquino Afonso , Lilian Berton