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We can, and should, do statistical inference on simulation models by adjusting the parameters in the simulation so that the values of {\em randomly chosen} functions of the simulation output match the values of those same functions…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-18 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

Feature selection often leads to increased model interpretability, faster computation, and improved model performance by discarding irrelevant or redundant features. While feature selection is a well-studied problem with many widely-used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-12 Tianyi Yao , Genevera I. Allen

We introduce a new method of performing high dimensional discriminant analysis, which we call multiDA. We achieve this by constructing a hybrid model that seamlessly integrates a multiclass diagonal discriminant analysis model and feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Sarah Elizabeth Romanes , John Thomas Ormerod , Jean YH Yang

The Ripper algorithm is designed to generate rule sets for large datasets with many features. However, it was shown that the algorithm struggles with classification performance in the presence of missing data. The algorithm struggles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Mlungisi Duma , Bhekisipho Twala , Tshilidzi Marwala

The amount of collected data in many scientific fields is increasing, all of them requiring a common task: extract knowledge from massive, multi parametric data sets, as rapidly and efficiently possible. This is especially true in astronomy…

Feature selection is the problem of selecting a subset of features for a machine learning model that maximizes model quality subject to a budget constraint. For neural networks, prior methods, including those based on $\ell_1$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Taisuke Yasuda , MohammadHossein Bateni , Lin Chen , Matthew Fahrbach , Gang Fu , Vahab Mirrokni

While conventional power system protection isolates faulty components only after a fault has occurred, fault prediction approaches try to detect faults before they can cause significant damage. Although initial studies have demonstrated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Georg Kordowich , Julian Oelhaf , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier , Matthias Kereit , Johann Jaeger

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

In recent times, functional data analysis (FDA) has been successfully applied in the field of high dimensional data classification. In this paper, we present a novel classification framework using functional data and classwise Principal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-29 Avishek Chatterjee , Satyaki Mazumder , Koel Das

With the decreasing cost of data collection, the space of variables or features that can be used to characterize a particular predictor of interest continues to grow exponentially. Therefore, identifying the most characterizing features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Sali Rasoul , Sodiq Adewole , Alphonse Akakpo

Identifying anomalies has become one of the primary strategies towards security and protection procedures in computer networks. In this context, machine learning-based methods emerge as an elegant solution to identify such scenarios and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Lucas Biaggi , João P. Papa , Kelton A. P Costa , Danillo R. Pereira , Leandro A. Passos

Most data for evaluating and training recommender systems is subject to selection biases, either through self-selection by the users or through the actions of the recommendation system itself. In this paper, we provide a principled approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Tobias Schnabel , Adith Swaminathan , Ashudeep Singh , Navin Chandak , Thorsten Joachims

Along with the flourish of the information age, massive amounts of data are generated day by day. Due to the large-scale and high-dimensional characteristics of these data, it is often difficult to achieve better decision-making in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Peican Zhu , Xin Hou , Keke Tang , Zhen Wang , Feiping Nie

The functional linear model is an important extension of the classical regression model allowing for scalar responses to be modeled as functions of stochastic processes. Yet, despite the usefulness and popularity of the functional linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-27 Ioannis Kalogridis , Stanislav Nagy

Functional data are typically modeled as sample paths of smooth stochastic processes in order to mitigate the fact that they are often observed discretely and noisily, occasionally irregularly and sparsely. The smoothness assumption is…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-23 Neda Mohammadi , Victor M. Panaretos

Data Shapley provides a principled approach to data valuation and plays a crucial role in data-centric machine learning (ML) research. Data selection is considered a standard application of Data Shapley. However, its data selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jiachen T. Wang , Tianji Yang , James Zou , Yongchan Kwon , Ruoxi Jia

Feature selection is beneficial for improving the performance of general machine learning tasks by extracting an informative subset from the high-dimensional features. Conventional feature selection methods usually ignore the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Meng Liu , Chang Xu , Yong Luo , Chao Xu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Functional data analysis is a growing research field as more and more practical applications involve functional data. In this paper, we focus on the problem of regression and classification with functional predictors: the model suggested…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis Ferré , Nathalie Villa

Feature selection is a fundamental machine learning and data mining task, involved with discriminating redundant features from informative ones. It is an attempt to address the curse of dimensionality by removing the redundant features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Muhammad Rajabinasab , Arthur Zimek

We revisit the classical problem of comparing regression functions, a fundamental question in statistical inference with broad relevance to modern applications such as data integration, transfer learning, and causal inference. Existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-29 Jian Yan , Zhuoxi Li , Yang Ning , Yong Chen