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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

Estimating dense correspondences between images is a long-standing image under-standing task. Recent works introduce convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract high-level feature maps and find correspondences through feature matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Hao Huang , Jianchun Chen , Xiang Li , Lingjing Wang , Yi Fang

This paper considers the problem of variable selection in regression models in the case of functional variables that may be mixed with other type of variables (scalar, multivariate, directional, etc.). Our proposal begins with a simple null…

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

Feature selection has drawn much attention over the last decades in machine learning because it can reduce data dimensionality while maintaining the original physical meaning of features, which enables better interpretability than feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yiwen Liao , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

We propose a feature screening method that integrates both feature-feature and feature-target relationships. Inactive features are identified via a penalized minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) procedure, which is the continuous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-27 Peter Naylor , Benjamin Poignard , Héctor Climente-González , Makoto Yamada

In machine learning applications for online product offerings and marketing strategies, there are often hundreds or thousands of features available to build such models. Feature selection is one essential method in such applications for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-16 Zhenyu Zhao , Radhika Anand , Mallory Wang

Data selection for finetuning Large Language Models (LLMs) can be framed as a budget-constrained optimization problem: maximizing a model's downstream performance under a strict training data budget. Solving this problem is generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Animesh Jha , Harshit Gupta , Ananjan Nandi

Symbolic regression is the machine learning method for learning functions from data. After a brief overview of the symbolic regression landscape, I will describe the two main challenges that traditional algorithms face: they have an unknown…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Harry Desmond

Relevant and high-quality data are critical to successful development of machine learning applications. For machine learning applications on dynamic systems equipped with a large number of sensors, such as connected vehicles and robots, how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Alp Sahin , Xiangrui Zeng

Magnetic adhesion tracked wall-climbing robots face potential risks of overturning during high-altitude operations, making their stability crucial for ensuring safety. This study presents a dynamic feature selection method based on Proximal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhen Ma , He Xu , Jielong Dou , Yi Qin , Xueyu Zhang

In recent years, feature selection has become a challenging problem in several machine learning fields, such as classification problems. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a well-known technique applied in classification tasks. Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

This work describes algorithms for performing discrete object detection, specifically in the case of buildings, where usually only low quality RGB-only geospatial reflective imagery is available. We utilize new candidate search and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Joseph Paul Cohen , Wei Ding , Caitlin Kuhlman , Aijun Chen , Liping Di

Determining the most appropriate features for machine learning predictive models is challenging regarding performance and feature acquisition costs. In particular, global feature choice is limited given that some features will only benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Gabriel Bernardino , Anders Jonsson , Patrick Clarysse , Nicolas Duchateau

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 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 frequently used as a pre-processing step to machine learning. It is a process of choosing a subset of original features so that the feature space is optimally reduced according to a certain evaluation criterion. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Vijendra Singh , Shivani Pathak

Many computer vision and medical imaging problems are faced with learning from large-scale datasets, with millions of observations and features. In this paper we propose a novel efficient learning scheme that tightens a sparsity constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-07 Adrian Barbu , Yiyuan She , Liangjing Ding , Gary Gramajo

Feature selection is an important problem in high-dimensional data analysis and classification. Conventional feature selection approaches focus on detecting the features based on a redundancy criterion using learning and feature searching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Alex Pappachen James , Sima Dimitrijev

In this paper we address the problem of feature selection when the data is functional, we study several statistical procedures including classification, regression and principal components. One advantage of the blinding procedure is that it…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Ricardo Fraiman , Yanina Gimenez , Marcela Svarc