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Autoencoders, as a dimensionality reduction technique, have been recently applied to outlier detection. However, neural networks are known to be vulnerable to overfitting, and therefore have limited potential in the unsupervised outlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Hamed Sarvari , Carlotta Domeniconi , Bardh Prenkaj , Giovanni Stilo

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

Major complications arise from the recent increase in the amount of high-dimensional data, including high computational costs and memory requirements. Feature selection, which identifies the most relevant and informative attributes of a…

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) generate a massive amount of multi-modal data that once collected and processed through Machine Learning algorithms, enable AI-based services at the Edge. In fact, not all these data contain valuable, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Pietro Cassarà , Alberto Gotta , Lorenzo Valerio

We present a new method for improving the performances of variational autoencoder (VAE). In addition to enforcing the deep feature consistent principle thus ensuring the VAE output and its corresponding input images to have similar deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xianxu Hou , Ke Sun , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

High-dimensional clinical data have become invaluable resources for genetic studies, due to their accessibility in biobank-scale datasets and the development of high performance modeling techniques especially using deep learning. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Taedong Yun

We propose a flipped-Adversarial AutoEncoder (FAAE) that simultaneously trains a generative model G that maps an arbitrary latent code distribution to a data distribution and an encoder E that embodies an "inverse mapping" that encodes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Jiyi Zhang , Hung Dang , Hwee Kuan Lee , Ee-Chien Chang

A feature learning task involves training models that are capable of inferring good representations (transformations of the original space) from input data alone. When working with limited or unlabelled data, and also when multiple visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Gabriel B. Cavallari , Leonardo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

In this paper, a new feature selection algorithm, called SFE (Simple, Fast, and Efficient), is proposed for high-dimensional datasets. The SFE algorithm performs its search process using a search agent and two operators: non-selection and…

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a recent technique for decomposing neural network activations into human-interpretable features. However, in order for SAEs to identify all features represented in frontier models, it will be necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Anish Mudide , Joshua Engels , Eric J. Michaud , Max Tegmark , Christian Schroeder de Witt

The challenge of solving data mining problems in e-commerce applications such as recommendation system (RS) and click-through rate (CTR) prediction is how to make inferences by constructing combinatorial features from a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zhenyuan Zhong , Jie Yang , Yacong Ma , Shoubin Dong , Jinlong Hu

Automated feature engineering (AFE) enables AI systems to autonomously construct high-utility representations from raw tabular data. However, existing AFE methods rely on statistical heuristics, yielding brittle features that fail under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Wangyang Ying , Yanjie Fu

Autoencoders have been widely used for dimensional reduction and feature extraction. Various types of autoencoders have been proposed by introducing regularization terms. Most of these regularizations improve representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yuzhu Guo , Kang Pan , Simeng Li , Zongchang Han , Kexin Wang , Li Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple resource-constrained edge devices with varying levels of heterogeneity to collaboratively train a global model. However, devices with limited capacity can create bottlenecks and slow down model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) extract millions of interpretable features from a language model, but flat feature inventories aren't very useful on their own. Domain concepts get mixed with generic and weakly grounded features, while related…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 John Winnicki , Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Eric Darve

Federated learning is a specific distributed learning paradigm in which a central server aggregates updates from multiple clients' local models, thereby enabling the server to learn without requiring clients to upload their private data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuchen He , Xiangfeng Wang

Machine-learning algorithms have shown outstanding image recognition or classification performance for computer vision applications. However, the compute and energy requirement for implementing such classifier models for large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Priyadarshini Panda , Aayush Ankit , Parami Wijesinghe , Kaushik Roy

Although unsupervised generative modeling of an image dataset using a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been used to detect anomalous images, or anomalous regions in images, recent works have shown that this method often identifies images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 David Dehaene , Pierre Eline

Facial feature tracking is essential in imaging ballistocardiography for accurate heart rate estimation and enables motor degradation quantification in Parkinson's disease through skin feature tracking. While deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jose Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been used extensively to discover low-dimensional latent factors governing neural activity and animal behavior. However, without careful model selection, the uncovered latent factors may reflect noise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Julia Huiming Wang , Dexter Tsin , Tatiana Engel