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Feature selection is an important task in many problems occurring in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining applications. The feature selection approach enables us to reduce the computation burden and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Hadi Zare , Mojtaba Niazi

Feature selection, as a vital dimension reduction technique, reduces data dimension by identifying an essential subset of input features, which can facilitate interpretable insights into learning and inference processes. Algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xinxing Wu , Qiang Cheng

This paper studies $\ell_1$ regularization with high-dimensional features for support vector machines with a built-in reject option (meaning that the decision of classifying an observation can be withheld at a cost lower than that of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-06 Marten Wegkamp , Ming Yuan

With the emergence of graph databases, the task of frequent subgraph discovery has been extensively addressed. Although the proposed approaches in the literature have made this task feasible, the number of discovered frequent subgraphs is…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Wajdi Dhifli , Mohamed Moussaoui , Rabie Saidi , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Overfitting is one of the most common problems when training deep neural networks on comparatively small datasets. Here, we demonstrate that neural network activation sparsity is a reliable indicator for overfitting which we utilize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Karim Huesmann , Soeren Klemm , Lars Linsen , Benjamin Risse

In performative learning, the data distribution reacts to the deployed model - for example, because strategic users adapt their features to game it - which creates a more complex dynamic than in classical supervised learning. One should…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Edwige Cyffers , Alireza Mirrokni , Marco Mondelli

Several image processing tasks, such as image classification and object detection, have been significantly improved using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Like ResNet and EfficientNet, many architectures have achieved outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Claudio Filipi Gonçalves dos Santos , João Paulo Papa

The paper proposes a novel regularization procedure for machine learning. The proposed high-order regularization (HR) provides new insight into regularization, which is widely used to train a neural network that can be utilized to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xinghua Liu , Ming Cao

Despite a variety of available techniques the issue of the proper regularization parameter choice for inverse problems still remains one of the biggest challenges. The main difficulty lies in constructing a rule, allowing to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Ernesto De Vito , Massimo Fornasier , Valeriya Naumova

For the linear inverse problem with sparsity constraints, the $l_0$ regularized problem is NP-hard, and existing approaches either utilize greedy algorithms to find almost-optimal solutions or to approximate the $l_0$ regularization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Qinghua Tao , Xiangming Xi , Jun Xu , Johan A. K. Suykens

Sparse model selection is ubiquitous from linear regression to graphical models where regularization paths, as a family of estimators upon the regularization parameter varying, are computed when the regularization parameter is unknown or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-10 Chendi Huang , Yuan Yao

Unsupervised feature selection is an important method to reduce dimensions of high dimensional data without labels, which is benefit to avoid ``curse of dimensionality'' and improve the performance of subsequent machine learning tasks, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Fuxu Cai , Tianrui Li , Fengmao Lv

Inspired by biological vision systems, the over-complete local features with huge cardinality are increasingly used for face recognition during the last decades. Accordingly, feature selection has become more and more important and plays a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Yixiong Liang , Lei Wang , Yao Xiang , Beiji Zou

Feature selection is a crucial step in building machine learning models. This process is often achieved with accuracy as an objective, and can be cumbersome and computationally expensive for large-scale datasets. Several additional model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Shubham Sharma , Sanghamitra Dutta , Emanuele Albini , Freddy Lecue , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Collecting the most informative data from a large dataset distributed over a network is a fundamental problem in many fields, including control, signal processing and machine learning. In this paper, we establish a connection between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

Frequent pattern (itemset) mining in transactional databases is one of the most well-studied problems in data mining. One obstacle that limits the practical usage of frequent pattern mining is the extremely large number of patterns…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

In this paper, we develop a randomized algorithm and theory for learning a sparse model from large-scale and high-dimensional data, which is usually formulated as an empirical risk minimization problem with a sparsity-inducing regularizer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Modern high-dimensional methods often adopt the "bet on sparsity" principle, while in supervised multivariate learning statisticians may face "dense" problems with a large number of nonzero coefficients. This paper proposes a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Yiyuan She , Jiahui Shen , Chao Zhang

We study the topic of dimensionality reduction for $k$-means clustering. Dimensionality reduction encompasses the union of two approaches: \emph{feature selection} and \emph{feature extraction}. A feature selection based algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christos Boutsidis , Anastasios Zouzias , Michael W. Mahoney , Petros Drineas