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Ensembling is commonly regarded as an effective way to improve the general performance of models in machine learning, while also increasing the robustness of predictions. When it comes to algorithmic fairness, heterogeneous ensembles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Estanislao Claucich , Sara Hooker , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante , Rodrigo Echeveste

This study is about inducing classifiers using data that is imbalanced, with a minority class being under-represented in relation to the majority classes. The first section of this research focuses on the main characteristics of data that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shivaditya Shivganesh , Nitin Narayanan N , Pranav Murali , Ajaykumar M

Learning from an imbalanced dataset is a tricky proposition. Because these datasets are biased towards one class, most existing classifiers tend not to perform well on minority class examples. Conventional classifiers usually aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Tanujit Chakraborty , Ashis Kumar Chakraborty

In this paper, the problem of training a classifier on a dataset with incomplete features is addressed. We assume that different subsets of features (random or structured) are available at each data instance. This situation typically occurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Cesar F. Caiafa , Ziyao Wang , Jordi Solé-Casals , Qibin Zhao

We study the challenge of achieving theoretically grounded feature recovery using Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) for the interpretation of Large Language Models. Existing SAE training algorithms often lack rigorous mathematical guarantees and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Siyu Chen , Heejune Sheen , Xuyuan Xiong , Tianhao Wang , Zhuoran Yang

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…

This paper presents a framework for efficiently learning feature selection policies which use less features to reach a high classification precision on large unstructured data. It uses a Deep Convolutional Autoencoder (DCAE) for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Johan S. Obando-Ceron , Victor Romero Cano , Walter Mayor Toro

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a promising approach to extracting features from neural networks, enabling model interpretability as well as causal interventions on model internals. SAEs generate sparse feature representations using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Kola Ayonrinde

Automated decision making based on big data and machine learning (ML) algorithms can result in discriminatory decisions against certain protected groups defined upon personal data like gender, race, sexual orientation etc. Such algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Vasileios Iosifidis , Besnik Fetahu , Eirini Ntoutsi

Learning from imbalanced data is one of the most significant challenges in real-world classification tasks. In such cases, neural networks performance is substantially impaired due to preference towards the majority class. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-13 Bronislav Yasinnik , Moshe Salhov , Ofir Lindenbaum , Amir Averbuch

As the deployment of automated face recognition (FR) systems proliferates, bias in these systems is not just an academic question, but a matter of public concern. Media portrayals often center imbalance as the main source of bias, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Valeriia Cherepanova , Steven Reich , Samuel Dooley , Hossein Souri , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

We demonstrate a new deep learning autoencoder network, trained by a nonnegativity constraint algorithm (NCAE), that learns features which show part-based representation of data. The learning algorithm is based on constraining negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Jacek M. Zurada , Olfa Nasraoui

This study proposes a method for imbalanced data classification based on deep probabilistic graphical models (DPGMs) to solve the problem that traditional methods have insufficient learning ability for minority class samples. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yujia Lou , Jie Liu , Yuan Sheng , Jiawei Wang , Yiwei Zhang , Yaokun Ren

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

The data imbalance problem is a frequent bottleneck in the classification performance of neural networks. In this paper, we propose a novel supervised discriminative feature generation (DFG) method for a minority class dataset. DFG is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz , Yong Oh Lee

Feature selection (FS) is assumed to improve predictive performance and identify meaningful features in high-dimensional datasets. Surprisingly, small random subsets of features (0.02-1%) match or outperform the predictive performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Bhavesh Neekhra , Debayan Gupta , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Class imbalance is a challenging issue in practical classification problems for deep learning models as well as traditional models. Traditionally successful countermeasures such as synthetic over-sampling have had limited success with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Shin Ando , Chun-Yuan Huang

Pulsar detection has become an active research topic in radio astronomy recently. One of the essential procedures for pulsar detection is pulsar candidate sifting (PCS), a procedure of finding out the potential pulsar signals in a survey.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Haitao Lin , Xiangru Li

Sparse auto-encoders (SAEs) have become a prevalent tool for interpreting language models' inner workings. However, it is unknown how tightly SAE features correspond to computationally important directions in the model. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Thomas Dooms , Daniel Wilhelm

In a given classification task, the accuracy of the learner is often hampered by finiteness of the training set, high-dimensionality of the feature space and severe overlap between classes. In the context of interpretable learners, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Marco Canducci , Lida Abdi , Alessandro Prete , Roland J. Veen , Michael Biehl , Wiebke Arlt , Peter Tino