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Working with exhaustive search on large dataset is infeasible for several reasons. Recently, developed techniques that made pattern set mining feasible by a general solver with long execution time that supports heuristic search and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shanjida Khatun , Hasib Ul Alam , Swakkhar Shatabda

The feature subset selection problem aims at selecting the relevant subset of features to improve the performance of a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm on training data. Some features in data can be inherently noisy, costly to compute,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ayaz Ur Rehman , Anas Nadeem , Muhammad Zubair Malik

Feature selection is an important preprocessing step in machine learning and data mining. In real-world applications, costs, including money, time and other resources, are required to acquire the features. In some cases, there is a test…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Fan Min , Qinghua Hu , William Zhu

Large-scale Hierarchical Classification (HC) involves datasets consisting of thousands of classes and millions of training instances with high-dimensional features posing several big data challenges. Feature selection that aims to select…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Azad Naik , Huzefa Rangwala

The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

Feature selection aims to identify the most pattern-discriminative feature subset. In prior literature, filter (e.g., backward elimination) and embedded (e.g., Lasso) methods have hyperparameters (e.g., top-K, score thresholding) and tie to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

Feature selection, as a data preprocessing strategy, has been proven to be effective and efficient in preparing data (especially high-dimensional data) for various data mining and machine learning problems. The objectives of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jundong Li , Kewei Cheng , Suhang Wang , Fred Morstatter , Robert P. Trevino , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

This paper introduces two novel criteria: one for feature selection and another for feature elimination in the context of best subset selection, which is a benchmark problem in statistics and machine learning. From the perspective of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Zhihan Zhu , Yanhao Zhang , Yong Xia

We develop new algorithmic methods with provable guarantees for feature selection in regard to categorical data clustering. While feature selection is one of the most common approaches to reduce dimensionality in practice, most of the known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Kirill Simonov

Feature selection aims to identify the optimal feature subset for enhancing downstream models. Effective feature selection can remove redundant features, save computational resources, accelerate the model learning process, and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

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

In recent years the importance of finding a meaningful pattern from huge datasets has become more challenging. Data miners try to adopt innovative methods to face this problem by applying feature selection methods. In this paper we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Mehdi Naseriparsa , Amir-masoud Bidgoli , Touraj Varaee

Feature selection is an important and active field of research in machine learning and data science. Our goal in this paper is to propose a collection of synthetic datasets that can be used as a common reference point for feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Firuz Kamalov , Hana Sulieman , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Feature selection is crucial for pinpointing relevant features in high-dimensional datasets, mitigating the 'curse of dimensionality,' and enhancing machine learning performance. Traditional feature selection methods for classification use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rittwika Kansabanik , Adrian Barbu

Feature selection is a process of choosing a subset of relevant features so that the quality of prediction models can be improved. An extensive body of work exists on information-theoretic feature selection, based on maximizing Mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Jilin Wu , Soumyajit Gupta , Chandrajit Bajaj

Feature selection is one of the most challenging issues in machine learning, especially while working with high dimensional data. In this paper, we address the problem of feature selection and propose a new approach called Evolving Fast and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Uzay Cetin , Yunus Emre Gundogmus

Feature selection is important step in machine learning since it has shown to improve prediction accuracy while depressing the curse of dimensionality of high dimensional data. The neural networks have experienced tremendous success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Peter Bugata , Peter Drotar

One of the classical problems in machine learning and data mining is feature selection. A feature selection algorithm is expected to be quick, and at the same time it should show high performance. MeLiF algorithm effectively solves this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ivan Smetannikov , Ilya Isaev , Andrey Filchenkov

High-dimensional datasets depict a challenge for learning tasks in data mining and machine learning. Feature selection is an effective technique in dealing with dimensionality reduction. It is often an essential data processing step prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gustavo Sosa-Cabrera , Santiago Gómez-Guerrero , Miguel García-Torres , Christian E. Schaerer

Feature selection is generally used as one of the most important preprocessing techniques in machine learning, as it helps to reduce the dimensionality of data and assists researchers and practitioners in understanding data. Thereby, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Yiwen Liao , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang