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Recommender systems support decisions in various domains ranging from simple items such as books and movies to more complex items such as financial services, telecommunication equipment, and software systems. In this context,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Alexander Felfernig , Viet-Man Le , Andrei Popescu , Mathias Uta , Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Müslüum Atas

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

Identifying anomalies has become one of the primary strategies towards security and protection procedures in computer networks. In this context, machine learning-based methods emerge as an elegant solution to identify such scenarios and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Lucas Biaggi , João P. Papa , Kelton A. P Costa , Danillo R. Pereira , Leandro A. Passos

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

High-dimensional data in many areas such as computer vision and machine learning tasks brings in computational and analytical difficulty. Feature selection which selects a subset from observed features is a widely used approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Chao Zhang , Chao Li , Chao Xu

Classic feature selection techniques remove those features that are either irrelevant or redundant, achieving a subset of relevant features that help to provide a better knowledge extraction. This allows the creation of compact models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Brais Cancela , Verónica Bolón-Canedo , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , João Gama

Excluding irrelevant features in a pattern recognition task plays an important role in maintaining a simpler machine learning model and optimizing the computational efficiency. Nowadays with the rise of large scale datasets, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Saman Sadeghyan

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning. It builds an interpretable and robust model by selecting the features that contribute the most to the prediction target. However, most mature feature selection algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zhifeng Qiu , Wanxin Zeng , Dahua Liao , Ning Gui

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

The statistically equivalent signature (SES) algorithm is a method for feature selection inspired by the principles of constrained-based learning of Bayesian Networks. Most of the currently available feature-selection methods return only a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-11 Vincenzo Lagani , Giorgos Athineou , Alessio Farcomeni , Michail Tsagris , Ioannis Tsamardinos

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are becoming an invaluable support for network intrusion detection, especially in revealing anomalous flows, which often hide cyber-threats. Typically, ML algorithms are exploited to classify/recognize data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Di Mauro , Giovanni Galatro , Giancarlo Fortino , Antonio Liotta

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…

Feature selection (FS) is an important research topic in machine learning. Usually, FS is modelled as a+ bi-objective optimization problem whose objectives are: 1) classification accuracy; 2) number of features. One of the main issues in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yu Xue , Yihang Tang , Xin Xu , Jiayu Liang , Ferrante Neri

Dynamic feature selection (DFS) is a machine learning framework in which features are acquired sequentially for individual samples under budget constraints. The exponential growth in the number of possible feature acquisition paths forces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

Feature selection is an important and active field of research in machine learning and data science. Our goal in this paper is to propose a collection of synthetic datasets that can be used as a common reference point for feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Firuz Kamalov , Hana Sulieman , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

In recent years the importance of finding a meaningful pattern from huge datasets has become more challenging. Data miners try to adopt innovative methods to face this problem by applying feature selection methods. In this paper we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Mehdi Naseriparsa , Amir-masoud Bidgoli , Touraj Varaee

In machine learning, the process of feature selection involves finding a reduced subset of features that captures most of the information required to train an accurate and efficient model. This work presents FeatureCuts, a novel feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Andy Hu , Devika Prasad , Luiz Pizzato , Nicholas Foord , Arman Abrahamyan , Anna Leontjeva , Cooper Doyle , Dan Jermyn

Machine learning is a powerful tool for extracting valuable information and making various predictions from diverse datasets. Traditional machine learning algorithms rely on well-defined input and output variables; however, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Anh T. Hoang , Zsolt J. Viharos

Feature selection is a crucial step in building machine learning models. This process is often achieved with accuracy as an objective, and can be cumbersome and computationally expensive for large-scale datasets. Several additional model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Shubham Sharma , Sanghamitra Dutta , Emanuele Albini , Freddy Lecue , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

One of the key challenges of machine learning (ML) based intrusion detection system (IDS) is the expensive computational complexity which is largely due to redundant, incomplete, and irrelevant features contain in the IDS datasets. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Mubarak Albarka Umar , Chen Zhanfang , Yan Liu