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Incomplete multi-view unsupervised feature selection (IMUFS), which aims to identify representative features from unlabeled multi-view data containing missing values, has received growing attention in recent years. Despite their promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zongxin Shen , Yanyong Huang , Dongjie Wang , Jinyuan Chang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li , Xiaoyi Jiang

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning and knowledge discovery. By selecting the most informative features and eliminating irrelevant ones, the performance of learning algorithms can be improved and the extraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chunxu Cao , Qiang Zhang

Have you ever wondered how your feature space is impacting the prediction of a specific sample in your dataset? In this paper, we introduce Single Sample Feature Importance (SSFI), which is an interpretable feature importance algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Joseph Gatto , Ravi Lanka , Yumi Iwashita , Adrian Stoica

Identification of informative variables in an information system is often performed using simple one-dimensional filtering procedures that discard information about interactions between variables. Such approach may result in removing some…

Existing feature filters rely on statistical pair-wise dependence metrics to model feature-target relationships, but this approach may fail when the target depends on higher-order feature interactions rather than individual contributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Taurai Muvunza , Egor Kraev , Pere Planell-Morell , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff

Multi-label feature selection (FS) reduces the dimensionality of multi-label data by removing irrelevant, noisy, and redundant features, thereby boosting the performance of multi-label learning models. However, existing methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

Modern biomedical data mining requires feature selection methods that can (1) be applied to large scale feature spaces (e.g. `omics' data), (2) function in noisy problems, (3) detect complex patterns of association (e.g. gene-gene…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Ryan J. Urbanowicz , Randal S. Olson , Peter Schmitt , Melissa Meeker , Jason H. Moore

Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-06-26 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

Feature selection prepares the AI-readiness of data by eliminating redundant features. Prior research falls into two primary categories: i) Supervised Feature Selection, which identifies the optimal feature subset based on their relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyuan Wang , Dongjie Wang , Wangyang Ying , Rui Xie , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

Survey data can contain a high number of features while having a comparatively low quantity of examples. Machine learning models that attempt to predict outcomes from survey data under these conditions can overfit and result in poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Benjamin C. Warner , Ziqi Xu , Simon Haroutounian , Thomas Kannampallil , Chenyang Lu

High-dimensional data is commonly encountered in numerous data analysis tasks. Feature selection techniques aim to identify the most representative features from the original high-dimensional data. Due to the absence of class label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yunhui Liang , Jianwen Gan , Yan Chen , Peng Zhou , Liang Du

Feature selection is the process of sieving features, in which informative features are separated from the redundant and irrelevant ones. This process plays an important role in machine learning, data mining and bioinformatics. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Javad Rahimipour Anaraki , Saeed Samet

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 presents a novel meta learning framework for feature selection (FS) based on fuzzy similarity. The proposed method aims to recommend the best FS method from four candidate FS methods for any given dataset. This is achieved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixiao Shen , Xin Chen , Jonathan M. Garibaldi

In this paper, we investigate dynamic feature selection within multivariate time-series scenario, a common occurrence in clinical prediction monitoring where each feature corresponds to a bio-test result. Many existing feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yutong Chen , Jiandong Gao , Ji Wu

Feature selection has been studied widely in the literature. However, the efficacy of the selection criteria for low sample size applications is neglected in most cases. Most of the existing feature selection criteria are based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 S L Happy , Ramanarayan Mohanty , Aurobinda Routray

During the past decades, to study high-dimensional data in a large variety of problems, researchers have proposed many Feature Extraction algorithms. One of the most effective approaches for optimal feature extraction is based on mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Ali Shadvar

Feature subset selection, as a special case of the general subset selection problem, has been the topic of a considerable number of studies due to the growing importance of data-mining applications. In the feature subset selection problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Tofigh Naghibi , Sarah Hoffmann , Beat Pfister

Many problems within personalized medicine and digital health rely on the analysis of continuous-time functional biomarkers and other complex data structures emerging from high-resolution patient monitoring. In this context, this work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-14 Marcos Matabuena