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From a machine learning point of view, identifying a subset of relevant features from a real data set can be useful to improve the results achieved by classification methods and to reduce their time and space complexity. To achieve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Pietro Cassara , Alessandro Rozza , Mirco Nanni

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has recently emerged as an effective dimensionality reduction method for unlabeled multi-view data. However, most existing methods mainly use first-order similarity graphs to preserve local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lin Xu , Ke Li , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li , Yanyong Huang

This paper presents a novel meta learning framework for feature selection (FS) based on fuzzy similarity. The proposed method aims to recommend the best FS method from four candidate FS methods for any given dataset. This is achieved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixiao Shen , Xin Chen , Jonathan M. Garibaldi

Feature selection problems arise in a variety of applications, such as microarray analysis, clinical prediction, text categorization, image classification and face recognition, multi-label learning, and classification of internet traffic.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Francisco Macedo , M. Rosário Oliveira , António Pacheco , Rui Valadas

The application of machine learning to image and video data often yields a high dimensional feature space. Effective feature selection techniques identify a discriminant feature subspace that lowers computational and modeling costs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yijing Yang , Wei Wang , Hongyu Fu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Fuzzy rough feature selection (FRFS) is an effective means of addressing the curse of dimensionality in high-dimensional data. By removing redundant and irrelevant features, FRFS helps mitigate classifier overfitting, enhance generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Suping Xu , Lin Shang , Keyu Liu , Hengrong Ju , Xibei Yang , Witold Pedrycz

In this paper, we introduce Partial Information Decomposition of Features (PIDF), a new paradigm for simultaneous data interpretability and feature selection. Contrary to traditional methods that assign a single importance value, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Charles Westphal , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Mutual Information (MI) based feature selection makes use of MI to evaluate each feature and eventually shortlists a relevant feature subset, in order to address issues associated with high-dimensional datasets. Despite the effectiveness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shiyu Liu , Mehul Motani

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

Although multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has demonstrated success in dimensionality reduction for unlabeled multi-view data, most existing methods reduce feature redundancy by focusing on linear correlations among features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yalan Tan , Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

Feature selection and reducing the dimensionality of data is an essential step in data analysis. In this work, we propose a new criterion for feature selection that is formulated as conditional information between features given the labeled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-20 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Alfred O. Hero

Multimodal classification is a core task in human-centric machine learning. We observe that information is highly complementary across modalities, thus unimodal information can be drastically sparsified prior to multimodal fusion without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yi Ding , Alex Rich , Mason Wang , Noah Stier , Matthew Turk , Pradeep Sen , Tobias Höllerer

This paper proposes a novel model-free screening procedure for ultrahigh dimensional data analysis. By utilizing slicing technique which has been successfully ap- plied to continuous variables, we construct a new index called the fused…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-28 Yan Xiao-Dong , Xie Jin-Han , Ding Xian-Wen , Wang Zhi-Qiang , Tang Nian-Sheng

Feature selection prepares the AI-readiness of data by eliminating redundant features. Prior research falls into two primary categories: i) Supervised Feature Selection, which identifies the optimal feature subset based on their relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyuan Wang , Dongjie Wang , Wangyang Ying , Rui Xie , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

Distributed and federated learning are important tools for high-dimensional classification of large datasets. To reduce computational costs and overcome the curse of dimensionality, feature screening plays a pivotal role in eliminating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Qi Qin , Erbo Li , Xingxiang Li , Yifan Sun , Wu Wang , Chen Xu

Feature selection methods are usually evaluated by wrapping specific classifiers and datasets in the evaluation process, resulting very often in unfair comparisons between methods. In this work, we develop a theoretical framework that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-11 Cláudia Pascoal , M. Rosário Oliveira , António Pacheco , Rui Valadas

Scientific observations may consist of a large number of variables (features). Identifying a subset of meaningful features is often ignored in unsupervised learning, despite its potential for unraveling clear patterns hidden in the ambient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ofir Lindenbaum , Uri Shaham , Jonathan Svirsky , Erez Peterfreund , Yuval Kluger

Nowadays, due to the growing phenomenon of forgery in many fields, the interest in developing new anti-counterfeiting device and cryptography keys, based on the Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) paradigm, is widely increased. PUFs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Giuseppe Emanuele Lio , Mauro Daniel Luigi Bruno , Francesco Riboli , Sara Nocentini , Antonio Ferraro

Feature selection is an important pre-processing step for many pattern classification tasks. Traditionally, feature selection methods are designed to obtain a feature subset that can lead to high classification accuracy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-03 Rui Wang , Ke Tang

To deal with high-dimensional unlabeled datasets in many areas, principal component analysis (PCA) has become a rising technique for unsupervised feature selection (UFS). However, most existing PCA-based methods only consider the structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Xianchao Xiu , Chenyi Huang , Pan Shang , Wanquan Liu