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Neural net classifiers trained on data with annotated class labels can also capture apparent visual similarity among categories without being directed to do so. We study whether this observation can be extended beyond the conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Zhirong Wu , Yuanjun Xiong , Stella Yu , Dahua Lin

Academic tabular benchmarks often contain small sets of curated features. In contrast, data scientists typically collect as many features as possible into their datasets, and even engineer new features from existing ones. To prevent…

Using search engines for web image retrieval is a tempting alternative to manual curation when creating an image dataset, but their main drawback remains the proportion of incorrect (noisy) samples retrieved. These noisy samples have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Paul Albert , Eric Arazo , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Nowadays, feature selection is frequently used in machine learning when there is a risk of performance degradation due to overfitting or when computational resources are limited. During the feature selection process, the subset of features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Sergey A. Saltykov

Latent representations are critical for the performance and robustness of machine learning models, as they encode the essential features of data in a compact and informative manner. However, in vision tasks, these representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bruno Corcuera , Carlos Eiras-Franco , Brais Cancela

Feature selection has drawn much attention over the last decades in machine learning because it can reduce data dimensionality while maintaining the original physical meaning of features, which enables better interpretability than feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yiwen Liao , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning. It builds an interpretable and robust model by selecting the features that contribute the most to the prediction target. However, most mature feature selection algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zhifeng Qiu , Wanxin Zeng , Dahua Liao , Ning Gui

In the most intrusion detection systems (IDS), a system tries to learn characteristics of different type of attacks by analyzing packets that sent or received in network. These packets have a lot of features. But not all of them is required…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Shafigh Parsazad , Ehsan Saboori , Amin Allahyar

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

By Emerging huge databases and the need to efficient learning algorithms on these datasets, new problems have appeared and some methods have been proposed to solve these problems by selecting efficient features. Feature selection is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Mitra Montazeri , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Aliakbar Niknafs

Feature selection is an important but challenging task in causal inference for obtaining unbiased estimates of causal quantities. Properly selected features in causal inference not only significantly reduce the time required to implement a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Tianyu Yang , Md. Noor-E-Alam

It is important to identify the discriminative features for high dimensional clustering. However, due to the lack of cluster labels, the regularization methods developed for supervised feature selection can not be directly applied. To learn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-16 Zhaoyu Xing , Yang Wan , Juan Wen , Wei Zhong

Selecting subsets of features that differentiate between two conditions is a key task in a broad range of scientific domains. In many applications, the features of interest form clusters with similar effects on the data at hand. To recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ram Dyuthi Sristi , Gal Mishne , Ariel Jaffe

Traditionally, training neural networks to perform semantic segmentation required expensive human-made annotations. But more recently, advances in the field of unsupervised learning have made significant progress on this issue and towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Our work focuses on tackling large-scale fine-grained image retrieval as ranking the images depicting the concept of interests (i.e., the same sub-category labels) highest based on the fine-grained details in the query. It is desirable to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiu-Shen Wei , Yang Shen , Xuhao Sun , Peng Wang , Yuxin Peng

Motivated by the goals of dataset pruning and defect identification, a growing body of methods have been developed to score individual examples within a dataset. These methods, which we call "example difficulty scores", are typically used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Devin Kwok , Nikhil Anand , Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , David Rolnick

Data acquisition, storage and management have been improved, while the key factors of many phenomena are not well known. Consequently, irrelevant and redundant features artificially increase the size of datasets, which complicates learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-05 Jean Golay , Michael Leuenberger , Mikhail Kanevski

Feature learning in the presence of a mixed type of variables, numerical and categorical types, is an important issue for related modeling problems. For simple neighborhood queries under mixed data space, standard practice is to consider…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-07 Saswata Sahoo , Souradip Chakraborty

Natural language understanding (NLU) models tend to rely on spurious correlations (i.e., dataset bias) to achieve high performance on in-distribution datasets but poor performance on out-of-distribution ones. Most of the existing debiasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shihan Dou , Rui Zheng , Ting Wu , SongYang Gao , Junjie Shan , Qi Zhang , Yueming Wu , Xuanjing Huang

The need for labeled data is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to deploying deep learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. The current generation of learning algorithms requires a large volume of data labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aaron Reite , Scott Kangas , Zackery Steck , Steven Goley , Jonathan Von Stroh , Steven Forsyth