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We consider the problem of high-dimensional non-linear variable selection for supervised learning. Our approach is based on performing linear selection among exponentially many appropriately defined positive definite kernels that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Francis Bach

Feature selection is a critical task in machine learning and statistics. However, existing feature selection methods either (i) rely on parametric methods such as linear or generalized linear models, (ii) lack theoretical false discovery…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-18 Omar Melikechi , David B. Dunson , Jeffrey W. Miller

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

Classification of high-dimensional low sample size (HDLSS) data poses a challenge in a variety of real-world situations, such as gene expression studies, cancer research, and medical imaging. This article presents the development and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Jyotishka Ray Choudhury , Aytijhya Saha , Sarbojit Roy , Subhajit Dutta

In traditional logistic regression models, the link function is often assumed to be linear and continuous in predictors. Here, we consider a threshold model that all continuous features are discretized into ordinal levels, which further…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-18 Yinan Lin , Wen Zhou , Zhi Geng , Gexin Xiao , Jianxin Yin

Estimating a prediction function is a fundamental component of many data analyses. The super learner ensemble, a particular implementation of stacking, has desirable theoretical properties and has been used successfully in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-23 Brian D. Williamson , Drew King , Ying Huang

Robust local feature representations are essential for spatial intelligence tasks such as robot navigation and augmented reality. Establishing reliable correspondences requires descriptors that provide both high discriminative power and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Yao Su

The problem of best subset selection in linear regression is considered with the aim to find a fixed size subset of features that best fits the response. This is particularly challenging when the total available number of features is very…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Sarat Moka , Benoit Liquet , Houying Zhu , Samuel Muller

One of the main obstacles of adopting digital pathology is the challenge of efficient processing of hyperdimensional digitized biopsy samples, called whole slide images (WSIs). Exploiting deep learning and introducing compact WSI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Taher Dehkharghanian , Abtin Riasatian , H. R. Tizhoosh

This article presents a novel methodology for detecting multiple biomarkers in high-dimensional mediation models by utilizing a modified Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) alongside Pathway LASSO. This approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-17 Pei-Shan Yen , Soumya Sahu , Debarghya Nandi , Zhaoliang Zhou , Olusola Ajilore , Dulal Bhaumik

It is now practically the norm for data to be very high dimensional in areas such as genetics, machine vision, image analysis and many others. When analyzing such data, parametric models are often too inflexible while nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-05-31 Abhishek Bhattacharya , Garritt Page , David Dunson

Major complications arise from the recent increase in the amount of high-dimensional data, including high computational costs and memory requirements. Feature selection, which identifies the most relevant and informative attributes of a…

We propose a new method for input variable selection in nonlinear regression. The method is embedded into a kernel regression machine that can model general nonlinear functions, not being a priori limited to additive models. This is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Magda Gregorová , Jason Ramapuram , Alexandros Kalousis , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

A fully Bayesian approach is proposed for ultrahigh-dimensional nonparametric additive models in which the number of additive components may be larger than the sample size, though ideally the true model is believed to include only a small…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-24 Zuofeng Shang , Ping Li

Feature selection is an important problem studied in data analytics seeking to identify a minimal-size feature subset that is optimally predictive for an outcome of interest. It is also a powerful tool in Knowledge Discovery as a means for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Yannis Pantazis , Vincenzo Lagani , Paulos Charonyktakis , Ioannis Tsamardinos

We consider the problems of variable selection and estimation in nonparametric additive regression models for high-dimensional data. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to model nonlinear relationships when the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-07 Linn Cecilie Bergersen , Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam , Ingrid K. Glad

Choosing which properties of the data to use as input to multivariate decision algorithms -- a.k.a. feature selection -- is an important step in solving any problem with machine learning. While there is a clear trend towards training…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-02 Ranit Das , Gregor Kasieczka , David Shih

Feature selection methods have an important role on the readability of data and the reduction of complexity of learning algorithms. In recent years, a variety of efforts are investigated on feature selection problems based on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

High-dimensional clustering analysis is a challenging problem in statistics and machine learning, with broad applications such as the analysis of microarray data and RNA-seq data. In this paper, we propose a new clustering procedure called…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-31 Tianqi Liu , Yu Lu , Biqing Zhu , Hongyu Zhao

This paper explores the following question: what kind of statistical guarantees can be given when doing variable selection in high-dimensional models? In particular, we look at the error rates and power of some multi-stage regression…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-20 Larry Wasserman , Kathryn Roeder