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The success of machine learning on a given task dependson, among other things, which learning algorithm is selected and its associated hyperparameters. Selecting an appropriate learning algorithm and setting its hyperparameters for a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Michael R. Smith , Logan Mitchell , Christophe Giraud-Carrier , Tony Martinez

Algorithm-selection (AS) methods are essential in order to obtain the best performance from a portfolio of solvers over large sets of instances. However, many AS methods rely on an analysis phase, e.g. where features are computed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Quentin Renau , Emma Hart

The performance of automated algorithm selection (AAS) strongly depends on the portfolio of algorithms to choose from. Selecting the portfolio is a non-trivial task that requires balancing the trade-off between the higher flexibility of…

The Algorithm Selection Problem for recommender systems-choosing the best algorithm for a given user or context-remains a significant challenge. Traditional meta-learning approaches often treat algorithms as categorical choices, ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jarne Mathi Decker , Joeran Beel

Data pruning, or instance selection, is an important problem in machine learning especially in terms of nearest neighbour classifier. However, in data pruning which speeds up the prediction phase, there is an issue related to the speed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Marcin Blachnik , Piotr Ciepliński

Optimization is ubiquitous in our daily lives. In the past, (sub-)optimal solutions to any problem have been derived by trial and error, sheer luck, or the expertise of knowledgeable individuals. In our contemporary age, there thankfully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Raphael Patrick Prager

The exponential growth of volume, variety and velocity of data is raising the need for investigations of automated or semi-automated ways to extract useful patterns from the data. It requires deep expert knowledge and extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Abbas Raza Ali , Marcin Budka , Bogdan Gabrys

Many feature subset selection (FSS) algorithms have been proposed, but not all of them are appropriate for a given feature selection problem. At the same time, so far there is rarely a good way to choose appropriate FSS algorithms for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Guangtao Wang , Qinbao Song , Heli Sun , Xueying Zhang , Baowen Xu , Yuming Zhou

Mathematical Selection is a method in which we select a particular choice from a set of such. It have always been an interesting field of study for mathematicians. Accordingly, Combinatorial Optimization is a sub field of this domain of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Anurag Dutta , K. Lakshmanan , A. Ramamoorthy , Liton Chandra Voumik , John Harshith , John Pravin Motha

Multi-label classification (MLC) is an ML task of predictive modeling in which a data instance can simultaneously belong to multiple classes. MLC is increasingly gaining interest in different application domains such as text mining,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ana Kostovska , Carola Doerr , Sašo Džeroski , Dragi Kocev , Panče Panov , Tome Eftimov

Considerable progress has been made in the recent literature studies to tackle the Algorithms Selection and Parametrization (ASP) problem, which is diversified in multiple meta-learning setups. Yet there is a lack of surveys and comparative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Moncef Garouani

The main purpose of Feature Subset Selection is to find a reduced subset of attributes from a data set described by a feature set. The task of a feature selection algorithm (FSA) is to provide with a computational solution motivated by a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 L. A. Belanche , F. F. González

AI systems increasingly support human decision-making. In many cases, despite the algorithm's superior performance, the final decision remains in human hands. For example, an AI may assist doctors in determining which diagnostic tests to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Gali Noti , Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg , Sigal Oren

The task of learning to pick a single preferred example out a finite set of examples, an "optimal choice problem", is a supervised machine learning problem with complex, structured input. Problems of optimal choice emerge often in various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Marina Sapir

Hard optimisation problems such as Boolean Satisfiability typically have long solving times and can usually be solved by many algorithms, although the performance can vary widely in practice. Research has shown that no single algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Riccardo Volpato , Guangyan Song

In [1, 2], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature extraction optimization processes for solving largescale problems and overcoming machine learning limitations. Majority of optimization algorithms that have been introduced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Performance complementarity of solvers available to tackle black-box optimization problems gives rise to the important task of algorithm selection (AS). Automated AS approaches can help replace tedious and labor-intensive manual selection,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Ana Kostovska , Anja Jankovic , Diederick Vermetten , Sašo Džeroski , Tome Eftimov , Carola Doerr

Automated Algorithm Selection (AAS) is a popular meta-algorithmic approach and has demonstrated to work well for single-objective optimisation in combination with exploratory landscape features (ELA), i.e., (numerical) descriptive features…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Oliver Preuß , Jeroen Rook , Jakob Bossek , Heike Trautmann

A self-learning adaptive system (SLAS) uses machine learning to enable and enhance its adaptability. Such systems are expected to perform well in dynamic situations. For learning high-performance adaptation policy, some assumptions must be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Mingyue Zhang , Jialong Li , Haiyan Zhao , Kenji Tei , Shinichi Honiden , Zhi Jin

Recommending appropriate algorithms to a classification problem is one of the most challenging issues in the field of data mining. The existing algorithm recommendation models are generally constructed on only one kind of meta-features by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Guangtao Wang , Qinbao Song , Xiaoyan Zhu