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Zero-shot reinforcement learning is necessary for extracting optimal policies in absence of concrete rewards for fast adaptation to future problem settings. Forward-backward representations (FB) have emerged as a promising method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Núria Armengol Urpí , Marin Vlastelica , Georg Martius , Stelian Coros

In this paper, we present a new adaptive feature scaling scheme for ultrahigh-dimensional feature selection on Big Data. To solve this problem effectively, we first reformulate it as a convex semi-infinite programming (SIP) problem and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mingkui Tan , Ivor W. Tsang , Li Wang

We introduce Feasible Learning (FL), a sample-centric learning paradigm where models are trained by solving a feasibility problem that bounds the loss for each training sample. In contrast to the ubiquitous Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM)…

Excluding irrelevant features in a pattern recognition task plays an important role in maintaining a simpler machine learning model and optimizing the computational efficiency. Nowadays with the rise of large scale datasets, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Saman Sadeghyan

Feature construction can contribute to comprehensibility and performance of machine learning models. Unfortunately, it usually requires exhaustive search in the attribute space or time-consuming human involvement to generate meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Boštjan Vouk , Matej Guid , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

A new line of research for feature selection based on neural networks has recently emerged. Despite its superiority to classical methods, it requires many training iterations to converge and detect informative features. The computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ghada Sokar , Zahra Atashgahi , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

In federated learning (FL), accommodating clients' varied computational capacities poses a challenge, often limiting the participation of those with constrained resources in global model training. To address this issue, the concept of model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feijie Wu , Xingchen Wang , Yaqing Wang , Tianci Liu , Lu Su , Jing Gao

The population-based optimization algorithms have provided promising results in feature selection problems. However, the main challenges are high time complexity. Moreover, the interaction between features is another big challenge in FS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Motahare Namakin , Modjtaba Rouhani , Mostafa Sabzekar

Zero-day attack detection plays a critical role in mitigating risks, protecting assets, and staying ahead in the evolving threat landscape. This study explores the application of stacked autoencoder (SAE), a type of artificial neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mahmut Tokmak , Mike Nkongolo

This paper studies the problem of sampling vector and tensor signals, which is the process of choosing sites in vectors and tensors to place sensors for better recovery. A small core tensor and multiple factor matrices can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Hao Li , Dong Liang , Zixi Zhou , Zheng Xie

Purpose: The study aims to investigate the application of the data element market in software project management, focusing on improving effort estimation by addressing challenges faced by traditional methods. Design/methodology/approach:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haoyang Chen , Botong Xu , Kaiyang Zhong

We study the data selection problem, whose aim is to select a small representative subset of data that can be used to efficiently train a machine learning model. We present a new data selection approach based on $k$-means clustering and…

The machine learning (ML) life cycle involves a series of iterative steps, from the effective gathering and preparation of the data, including complex feature engineering processes, to the presentation and improvement of results, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Rafael M. Martins , Kostiantyn Kucher , Andreas Kerren

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Feature selection from a large number of covariates (aka features) in a regression analysis remains a challenge in data science, especially in terms of its potential of scaling to ever-enlarging data and finding a group of scientifically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-10 Yiying Fan , Jiayang Sun

Modern tasks in reinforcement learning have large state and action spaces. To deal with them efficiently, one often uses predefined feature mapping to represent states and actions in a low-dimensional space. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dongruo Zhou , Jiafan He , Quanquan Gu

Federated learning has attracted increasing attention with the emergence of distributed data. While extensive federated learning algorithms have been proposed for the non-convex distributed problem, federated learning in practice still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xidong Wu , Feihu Huang , Zhengmian Hu , Heng Huang

Sample selection improves the efficiency and effectiveness of machine learning models by providing informative and representative samples. Typically, samples can be modeled as a sample graph, where nodes are samples and edges represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianchi Xie , Jiangning Zhu , Guozu Ma , Minzhi Lin , Wei Chen , Weikai Yang , Shixia Liu

Following a recent surge in using history-based methods for resolving perceptual aliasing in reinforcement learning, we introduce an algorithm based on the feature reinforcement learning framework called PhiMDP. To create a practical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Phuong Nguyen , Peter Sunehag , Marcus Hutter

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