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Given a graph learning task, such as link prediction, on a new graph, how can we select the best method as well as its hyperparameters (collectively called a model) without having to train or evaluate any model on the new graph? Model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Namyong Park , Ryan Rossi , Nesreen Ahmed , Christos Faloutsos

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS), which selects informative features from multi-view unlabeled data, has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. Although great efforts have been devoted to MUFS, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Minghui Lu , Yanyong Huang , Minbo Ma , Jinyuan Chang , Dongjie Wang , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

To alleviate the cost of collecting and annotating large-scale point cloud datasets, we propose an unsupervised learning approach to learn features from unlabeled point cloud "3D object" dataset by using part contrasting and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

Community detection, discovering the underlying communities within a network from observed connections, is a fundamental problem in network analysis, yet it remains underexplored for signed networks. In signed networks, both edge connection…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

We propose graph-based predictable feature analysis (GPFA), a new method for unsupervised learning of predictable features from high-dimensional time series, where high predictability is understood very generically as low variance in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Björn Weghenkel , Asja Fischer , Laurenz Wiskott

We target open-world feature extrapolation problem where the feature space of input data goes through expansion and a model trained on partially observed features needs to handle new features in test data without further retraining. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

Link prediction is a classical problem in graph analysis with many practical applications. For directed graphs, recently developed deep learning approaches typically analyze node similarities through contrastive learning and aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yuyang Zhang , Xu Shen , Yu Xie , Ka-Chun Wong , Weidun Xie , Chengbin Peng

We introduce supervised feature ranking and feature subset selection algorithms for multivariate time series (MTS) classification. Unlike most existing supervised/unsupervised feature selection algorithms for MTS our techniques do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Shuchu Han , Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil

The Mixed-Membership Stochastic Blockmodel~(MMSB) is proposed as one of the state-of-the-art Bayesian relational methods suitable for learning the complex hidden structure underlying the network data. However, the current formulation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Zheng Yu , Xuhui Fan , Marcin Pietrasik , Marek Reformat

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has recently emerged as an effective dimensionality reduction method for unlabeled multi-view data. However, most existing methods mainly use first-order similarity graphs to preserve local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lin Xu , Ke Li , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li , Yanyong Huang

In the context of the highly increasing number of features that are available nowadays we design a robust and fast method for feature selection. The method tries to select the most representative features that are independent from each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Alexandra Maria Radu

The perception of facial beauty is a complex phenomenon depending on many, detailed and global facial features influencing each other. In the machine learning community this problem is typically tackled as a problem of supervised inference.…

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model for community structure in networks. Typically, only the adjacency matrix is used to perform SBM parameter inference. In this paper, we consider circumstances in which nodes have an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Natalie Stanley , Thomas Bonacci , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

In this study, we propose a novel motif-based approach for unsupervised textile anomaly detection that combines the benefits of traditional convolutional neural networks with those of an unsupervised learning paradigm. It consists of five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Imane Koulali , M. Taner Eskil

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 is generally used as one of the most important preprocessing techniques in machine learning, as it helps to reduce the dimensionality of data and assists researchers and practitioners in understanding data. Thereby, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Yiwen Liao , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

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

Mining discriminative subgraph patterns from graph data has attracted great interest in recent years. It has a wide variety of applications in disease diagnosis, neuroimaging, etc. Most research on subgraph mining focuses on the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bokai Cao , Xiangnan Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Ann B. Ragin

Graph representation learning (also called graph embeddings) is a popular technique for incorporating network structure into machine learning models. Unsupervised graph embedding methods aim to capture graph structure by learning a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Andrew Stolman , Caleb Levy , C. Seshadhri , Aneesh Sharma

The need for learning from unlabeled data is increasing in contemporary machine learning. Methods for unsupervised feature ranking, which identify the most important features in such data are thus gaining attention, and so are their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Urh Primožič , Blaž Škrlj , Sašo Džeroski , Matej Petković