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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 is a critical step in the analysis of high-dimensional data, where the number of features often vastly exceeds the number of samples. Effective feature selection not only improves model performance and interpretability but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Raquel Espinosa , Gracia Sánchez , José Palma , Fernando Jiménez

Feature selection, as a data preprocessing strategy, has been proven to be effective and efficient in preparing data (especially high-dimensional data) for various data mining and machine learning problems. The objectives of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jundong Li , Kewei Cheng , Suhang Wang , Fred Morstatter , Robert P. Trevino , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

Variable selection and dimension reduction are two commonly adopted approaches for high-dimensional data analysis, but have traditionally been treated separately. Here we propose an integrated approach, called sparse gradient learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-07-02 Gui-Bo Ye , Xiaohui Xie

Features play an important role in various visual tasks, especially in visual place recognition applied in perceptual changing environments. In this paper, we address the challenges of place recognition due to dynamics and confusable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yuxin Tian , Jinyu MIao , Xingming Wu , Haosong Yue , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen

The applications of traditional statistical feature selection methods to high-dimension, low sample-size data often struggle and encounter challenging problems, such as overfitting, curse of dimensionality, computational infeasibility, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Kexuan Li , Fangfang Wang , Lingli Yang , Ruiqi Liu

This paper addresses the scalability challenge of architecture search by formulating the task in a differentiable manner. Unlike conventional approaches of applying evolution or reinforcement learning over a discrete and non-differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hanxiao Liu , Karen Simonyan , Yiming Yang

Topological learning is a wide research area aiming at uncovering the mutual spatial relationships between the elements of a set. Some of the most common and oldest approaches involve the use of unsupervised competitive neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Ciravegna , Vincenzo Randazzo , Giansalvo Cirrincione

This paper introduces an algorithm to select demonstration examples for in-context learning of a query set. Given a set of $n$ examples, how can we quickly select $k$ out of $n$ to best serve as the conditioning for downstream inference?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Ziniu Zhang , Zhenshuo Zhang , Dongyue Li , Lu Wang , Jennifer Dy , Hongyang R. Zhang

In this paper we study a new approach in optimization that aims to search a large domain D where a given function takes large, small or specific values via an iterative optimization algorithm based on the gradient. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Raian Noufel Lefgoum

Many analyses in high-energy physics rely on selection thresholds (cuts) applied to detector, particle, or event properties. Initial cut values can often be guessed from physical intuition, but cut optimization, especially for multiple…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-12 Mike Hance , Juan Robles

We propose a soft gradient boosting framework for sequential regression that embeds a learnable linear feature transform within the boosting procedure. At each boosting iteration, we train a soft decision tree and learn a linear input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Huseyin Karaca , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

Many machine learning applications such as in vision, biology and social networking deal with data in high dimensions. Feature selection is typically employed to select a subset of features which im- proves generalization accuracy as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Yamuna Prasad , Dinesh Khandelwal , K. K. Biswas

Gradients have been used to quantify feature importance in machine learning models. Unfortunately, in nonlinear deep networks, not only individual neurons but also the whole network can saturate, and as a result an important input feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Mukund Sundararajan , Ankur Taly , Qiqi Yan

Data scientists often seek to identify the most important features in high-dimensional datasets. This can be done through $L_1$-regularized regression, but this can become inefficient for very high-dimensional datasets. Additionally,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ryan Swope , Amol Khanna , Philip Doldo , Saptarshi Roy , Edward Raff

Gradient-based optimization methods are commonly used to identify local optima in high-dimensional spaces. When derivatives cannot be evaluated directly, stochastic estimators can provide approximate gradients. However, these estimators'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Philipp Andelfinger , Wentong Cai

In this paper, a novel learning paradigm is presented to automatically identify groups of informative and correlated features from very high dimensions. Specifically, we explicitly incorporate correlation measures as constraints and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Yiteng Zhai , Mingkui Tan , Ivor Tsang , Yew Soon Ong

Feature selection is a dimensionality reduction technique that selects a subset of representative features from high dimensional data by eliminating irrelevant and redundant features. Recently, feature selection combined with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

The integration of algorithmic components into neural architectures has gained increased attention recently, as it allows training neural networks with new forms of supervision such as ordering constraints or silhouettes instead of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Felix Petersen , Christian Borgelt , Hilde Kuehne , Oliver Deussen

Interpreting gradient methods as fixed-point iterations, we provide a detailed analysis of those methods for minimizing convex objective functions. Due to their conceptual and algorithmic simplicity, gradient methods are widely used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-16 Alexander Jung