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Feature selection and instance selection are two important techniques of data processing. However, such selections have mostly been studied separately, while existing work towards the joint selection conducts feature/instance selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Wei Fan , Kunpeng Liu , Hao Liu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong , Yanjie Fu

Variable selection, also known as feature selection in machine learning, plays an important role in modeling high dimensional data and is key to data-driven scientific discoveries. We consider here the problem of detecting influential…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-24 Bo Jiang , Jun S. Liu

Feature Selection (FS) is a key task in Machine Learning. It consists in selecting a number of relevant variables for the model construction or data analysis. We present the R package, FSinR, which implements a variety of widely known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 F. Aragón-Royón , A. Jiménez-Vílchez , A. Arauzo-Azofra , J. M. Benítez

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 extraction and matching are among central problems of computer vision. It is inefficent to search features over all locations and scales. Neurophysiological evidence shows that to locate objects in a digital image the human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Liang Wu

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

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

In this paper, we tackle the question of discovering an effective set of spatial filters to solve hyperspectral classification problems. Instead of fixing a priori the filters and their parameters using expert knowledge, we let the model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-19 Devis Tuia , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

Feature selection that selects an informative subset of variables from data not only enhances the model interpretability and performance but also alleviates the resource demands. Recently, there has been growing attention on feature…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Zahra Atashgahi , Xuhao Zhang , Neil Kichler , Shiwei Liu , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Raymond Veldhuis , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

The goal of feature selection is to choose the optimal subset of features for a recognition task by evaluating the importance of each feature, thereby achieving effective dimensionality reduction. Currently, proposed feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zhenxing Zhang , Jun Ge , Zheng Wei , Chunjie Zhou , Yilei Wang

Feature selection aims to identify the optimal feature subset for enhancing downstream models. Effective feature selection can remove redundant features, save computational resources, accelerate the model learning process, and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

Feature selection (FS) is assumed to improve predictive performance and identify meaningful features in high-dimensional datasets. Surprisingly, small random subsets of features (0.02-1%) match or outperform the predictive performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Bhavesh Neekhra , Debayan Gupta , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Feature descriptors involved in image processing are generally manually chosen and high dimensional in nature. Selecting the most important features is a very crucial task for systems like facial expression recognition. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Muhammad Usman , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

Hyperspectral data consists of large number of features which require sophisticated analysis to be extracted. A popular approach to reduce computational cost, facilitate information representation and accelerate knowledge discovery is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Phool Preet , Sanjit Singh Batra , Jayadeva

The presence of irrelevant features in the input dataset tends to reduce the interpretability and predictive quality of machine learning models. Therefore, the development of feature selection methods to recognize irrelevant features is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Federico Amato , Fabian Guignard , Philippe Jacquet , Mikhail Kanevski

Disease risk models can identify high-risk patients and help clinicians provide more personalized care. However, risk models developed on one dataset may not generalize across diverse subpopulations of patients in different datasets and may…

Trajectory analysis is not only about obtaining movement data, but it is also of paramount importance in understanding the pattern in which an object moves through space and time, as well as in predicting its next move. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Chanuka Don Samarasinghage , Dhruv Gulabani

We present an interface that can be leveraged to quickly and effortlessly elicit people's preferences for visual stimuli, such as photographs, visual art and screensavers, along with rich side-information about its users. We plan to employ…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pantelis P. Analytis , Tobias Schnabel , Stefan Herzog , Daniel Barkoczi , Thorsten Joachims

High-dimensional feature selection is a central problem in a variety of application domains such as machine learning, image analysis, and genomics. In this paper, we propose graph-based tests as a useful basis for feature selection. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-13 Swarnadip Ghosh , Somabha Mukherjee , Divyansh Agarwal , Yichen He , Mingzhi Song , Xuejiao Pei

Existing interactive visualization tools for deep learning are mostly applied to the training, debugging, and refinement of neural network models working on natural images. However, visual analytics tools are lacking for the specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Xinyi Huang , Suphanut Jamonnak , Ye Zhao , Boyu Wang , Minh Hoai , Kevin Yager , Wei Xu