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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

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has recently received increasing attention for its promising ability in dimensionality reduction on multi-view unlabeled data. Existing MUFS methods typically select discriminative features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zongxin Shen , Yanyong Huang , Bin Wang , Jinyuan Chang , Shiyu Liu , Tianrui Li

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) has recently gained attention for its effectiveness in processing unlabeled high-dimensional data. However, existing methods overlook the intrinsic causal mechanisms within the data, resulting in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zongxin Shen , Yanyong Huang , Dongjie Wang , Minbo Ma , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

Not all real-world data are labeled, and when labels are not available, it is often costly to obtain them. Moreover, as many algorithms suffer from the curse of dimensionality, reducing the features in the data to a smaller set is often of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chiara Balestra , Florian Huber , Andreas Mayr , Emmanuel Müller

Feature selection is a prevalent data preprocessing paradigm for various learning tasks. Due to the expensive cost of acquiring supervision information, unsupervised feature selection sparks great interests recently. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Xiaoying Xing , Hongfu Liu , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Feature selection is a critical step in data-driven applications, reducing input dimensionality to enhance learning accuracy, computational efficiency, and interpretability. Existing state-of-the-art methods often require post-selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Pedram Pad , Hadi Hammoud , Mohamad Dia , Nadim Maamari , L. Andrea Dunbar

Though achieving excellent performance in some cases, current unsupervised learning methods for single image denoising usually have constraints in applications. In this paper, we propose a new approach which is more general and applicable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yutong Xie , Mingze Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

Effective feature selection is essential for high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning. Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) aims to simultaneously cluster data and identify the most discriminative features. Most existing UFS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Feng Yu , MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder , Ying Su , Oscar Contreras Velasco

Score diffusion methods can learn probability densities from samples. The score of the noise-corrupted density is estimated using a deep neural network, which is then used to iteratively transport a Gaussian white noise density to a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Stéphane Mallat , Eero P. Simoncelli

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with group sparsity constraints is formulated as a probabilistic graphical model and, assuming some observed data have been generated by the model, a feasible variational Bayesian algorithm is derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Ivan Ivek

Hierarchical probabilistic models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used for unsupervised learning tasks. These models consist of observable and latent variables, which represent the observable data and the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-26 Keisuke Yamazaki

The paper deals with the adaptation of a new measure for the unsupervised feature selection problems. The proposed measure is based on space filling concept and is called the coverage measure. This measure was used for judging the quality…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-28 Mohamed Laib , Mikhail Kanevski

Feature selection is an important part of building a machine learning model. By eliminating redundant or misleading features from data, the machine learning model can achieve better performance while reducing the demand on com-puting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Song Tan , Xia He

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning and knowledge discovery. By selecting the most informative features and eliminating irrelevant ones, the performance of learning algorithms can be improved and the extraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chunxu Cao , Qiang Zhang

This paper presents a model-agnostic ensemble approach for supervised learning. The proposed approach is based on a parametric version of Random Subspace, in which each base model is learned from a feature subset sampled according to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Vân Anh Huynh-Thu , Pierre Geurts

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 study, we focus on the unsupervised domain adaptation problem where an approximate inference model is to be learned from a labeled data domain and expected to generalize well to an unlabeled data domain. The success of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jing Wang , Jiahong Chen , Jianzhe Lin , Leonid Sigal , Clarence W. de Silva

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

In the field of data mining, how to deal with high-dimensional data is an inevitable problem. Unsupervised feature selection has attracted more and more attention because it does not rely on labels. The performance of spectral-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhengxin Li , Feiping Nie , Jintang Bian , Xuelong Li

In this paper we introduce Feature Gradients, a gradient-based search algorithm for feature selection. Our approach extends a recent result on the estimation of learnability in the sublinear data regime by showing that the calculation can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-29 Rishit Sheth , Nicolo Fusi