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Feature selection is an essential process in machine learning, especially when dealing with high-dimensional datasets. It helps reduce the complexity of machine learning models, improve performance, mitigate overfitting, and decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Egor Kraev , Baran Koseoglu , Luca Traverso , Mohammed Topiwalla

Feature selection methods are widely used to address the high computational overheads and curse of dimensionality in classifying high-dimensional data. Most conventional feature selection methods focus on handling homogeneous features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xuyang Yan , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Biniam Gebru , Shabnam Nazmi , Abdollah Homaifar

In supervised machine learning, feature selection plays a very important role by potentially enhancing explainability and performance as measured by computing time and accuracy-related metrics. In this paper, we investigate a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Raisa Islam , Subhasish Mazumdar , Rakibul Islam

Shrinkage estimators that possess the ability to produce sparse solutions have become increasingly important to the analysis of today's complex datasets. Examples include the LASSO, the Elastic-Net and their adaptive counterparts.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-09 Hongmei Liu , J. Sunil Rao

Feature selection refers to the process of selecting useful features for machine learning tasks, and it is also a key step for structural health monitoring (SHM). This paper proposes a fast feature selection algorithm by efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-11 Sikai Zhang , Tingna Wang , Keith Worden , Limin Sun , Elizabeth J. Cross

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

Consider a supervised dataset $D=[A\mid \textbf{b}]$, where $\textbf{b}$ is the outcome column, rows of $D$ correspond to observations, and columns of $A$ are the features of the dataset. A central problem in machine learning and pattern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Javad Rahimipour Anaraki , Hamid Usefi

Feature selection is a fundamental step in model development, shaping both predictive performance and interpretability. Yet, most widely used methods focus on predictive accuracy, and their performance degrades in the presence of correlated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Allen Daniel Sunny

Feature selection problems have been extensively studied for linear estimation, for instance, Lasso, but less emphasis has been placed on feature selection for non-linear functions. In this study, we propose a method for feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yutaro Yamada , Ofir Lindenbaum , Sahand Negahban , Yuval Kluger

As one of the most powerful tools for examining the association between functional covariates and a response, the functional regression model has been widely adopted in various interdisciplinary studies. Usually, a limited number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-07 Hanteng Ma , Ziliang Shen , Xingdong Feng , Xin Liu

Tree ensembles distribute feature importance evenly amongst groups of correlated features. The average feature ranking of the correlated group is suppressed, which reduces interpretability and complicates feature selection. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Brian Liu , Miaolan Xie , Madeleine Udell

Although multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has demonstrated success in dimensionality reduction for unlabeled multi-view data, most existing methods reduce feature redundancy by focusing on linear correlations among features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yalan Tan , Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

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

In this letter, a novel method for change detection is proposed using neighborhood structure correlation. Because structure features are insensitive to the intensity differences between bi-temporal images, we perform the correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Mengmeng Wang , Zhiqiang Han , Peizhen Yang , Bai Zhu , Ming Hao , Jianwei Fan , Yuanxin Ye

Simultaneous feature selection and non-linear function estimation is challenging in modeling, especially in high-dimensional settings where the number of variables exceeds the available sample size. In this article, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-05 Bin Luo , Susan Halabi

Federated learning paradigm to utilize datasets across multiple data providers. In FL, cross-silo data providers often hesitate to share their high-quality dataset unless their data value can be fairly assessed. Shapley value (SV) has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shuyue Wei , Yongxin Tong , Zimu Zhou , Tianran He , Yi Xu

We tackle the problem of multi-class relational sequence learning using relevant patterns discovered from a set of labelled sequences. To deal with this problem, firstly each relational sequence is mapped into a feature vector using the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Nicola Di Mauro , Teresa M. A. Basile , Stefano Ferilli , Floriana Esposito

In recent years, there has been considerable theoretical development regarding variable selection consistency of penalized regression techniques, such as the lasso. However, there has been relatively little work on quantifying the…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-21 Arend Voorman , Ali Shojaie , Daniela Witten

In statistical machine learning, kernel methods allow to consider infinite dimensional feature spaces with a computational cost that only depends on the number of observations. This is usually done by solving an optimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Guillaume Garrigos , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Neuroimage analysis usually involves learning thousands or even millions of variables using only a limited number of samples. In this regard, sparse models, e.g. the lasso, are applied to select the optimal features and achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Bo Xin , Lingjing Hu , Yizhou Wang , Wen Gao