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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 is an important data preprocessing in data mining and machine learning which can be used to reduce the feature dimension without deteriorating model's performance. Since obtaining annotated data is laborious or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Zhenzhen Sun , Yuanlong Yu

Along with the flourish of the information age, massive amounts of data are generated day by day. Due to the large-scale and high-dimensional characteristics of these data, it is often difficult to achieve better decision-making in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Peican Zhu , Xin Hou , Keke Tang , Zhen Wang , Feiping Nie

In this paper, we focus on the unsupervised multi-view feature selection which tries to handle high dimensional data in the field of multi-view learning. Although some graph-based methods have achieved satisfactory performance, they ignore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Qi Wang , Xu Jiang , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

Time-series data in application areas such as motion capture and activity recognition is often multi-dimension. In these application areas data typically comes from wearable sensors or is extracted from video. There is a lot of redundancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan , Padraig Cunningham

This paper discusses predictive inference and feature selection for generalized linear models with scarce but high-dimensional data. We argue that in many cases one can benefit from a decision theoretically justified two-stage approach:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Juho Piironen , Markus Paasiniemi , Aki Vehtari

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has been demonstrated as an effective technique to reduce the dimensionality of multi-view unlabeled data. The existing methods assume that all of views are complete. However, multi-view data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Yuxin Cai , Xiuwen Yi , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

Determining the most appropriate features for machine learning predictive models is challenging regarding performance and feature acquisition costs. In particular, global feature choice is limited given that some features will only benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Gabriel Bernardino , Anders Jonsson , Patrick Clarysse , Nicolas Duchateau

Feature selection methods have an important role on the readability of data and the reduction of complexity of learning algorithms. In recent years, a variety of efforts are investigated on feature selection problems based on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

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

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) is widely applied in machine learning and pattern recognition. However, most of the existing methods only consider a single sparsity, which makes it difficult to select valuable and discriminative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Xianchao Xiu , Anning Yang , Chenyi Huang , Xinrong Li , Wanquan Liu

Despite significant progress, previous multi-view unsupervised feature selection methods mostly suffer from two limitations. First, they generally utilize either cluster structure or similarity structure to guide the feature selection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Si-Guo Fang , Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Yong Tang

In recent years, numerous screening methods have been published for ultrahigh-dimensional data that contain hundreds of thousands of features; however, most of these features cannot handle data with thousands of classes. Prediction models…

Click-through prediction (CTR) models transform features into latent vectors and enumerate possible feature interactions to improve performance based on the input feature set. Therefore, when selecting an optimal feature set, we should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Dugang Liu , Liang Chen , Xiuqiang He , Xue 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

To deal with high-dimensional unlabeled datasets in many areas, principal component analysis (PCA) has become a rising technique for unsupervised feature selection (UFS). However, most existing PCA-based methods only consider the structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Xianchao Xiu , Chenyi Huang , Pan Shang , Wanquan Liu

There exist many high-dimensional data in real-world applications such as biology, computer vision, and social networks. Feature selection approaches are devised to confront with high-dimensional data challenges with the aim of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

Feature selection problems arise in a variety of applications, such as microarray analysis, clinical prediction, text categorization, image classification and face recognition, multi-label learning, and classification of internet traffic.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Francisco Macedo , M. Rosário Oliveira , António Pacheco , Rui Valadas

Feature selection has drawn much attention over the last decades in machine learning because it can reduce data dimensionality while maintaining the original physical meaning of features, which enables better interpretability than feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yiwen Liao , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

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