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Classification with a sparsity constraint on the solution plays a central role in many high dimensional machine learning applications. In some cases, the features can be grouped together so that entire subsets of features can be selected or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Nikhil Rao , Robert Nowak , Christopher Cox , Timothy Rogers

Traditional feature selections need to know the feature space before learning, and online streaming feature selection (OSFS) is proposed to process streaming features on the fly. Existing methods divide features into relevance or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 RuiYang Xu , Di Wu , Xin Luo

Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the origin of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This paper introduces a general methodology that can assist…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-17 Tsirizo Rabenoro , Jérôme Lacaille , Marie Cottrell , Fabrice Rossi

In this paper, we review state-of-the-art methods for feature selection in statistics with an application-oriented eye. Indeed, sparsity is a valuable property and the profusion of research on the topic might have provided little guidance…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-08 Dimitris Bertsimas , Jean Pauphilet , Bart Van Parys

The article considers the problem of estimating a high-dimensional sparse parameter in the presence of side information that encodes the sparsity structure. We develop a general framework that involves first using an auxiliary sequence to…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-21 Trambak Banerjee , Gourab Mukherjee , Wenguang Sun

Unsupervised feature selection has been always attracting research attention in the communities of machine learning and data mining for decades. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised feature selection method seeking a feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Sen Wang , Feiping Nie , Xiaojun Chang , Lina Yao , Xue Li , Quan Z. Sheng

Contrastive analysis (CA) refers to the exploration of variations uniquely enriched in a target dataset as compared to a corresponding background dataset generated from sources of variation that are irrelevant to a given task. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ethan Weinberger , Ian Covert , Su-In Lee

Feature selection is an important data preprocessing in data mining and machine learning which can be used to reduce the feature dimension without deteriorating model's performance. Since obtaining annotated data is laborious or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Zhenzhen Sun , Yuanlong Yu

Traditional model-free feature selection methods treat each feature independently while disregarding the interrelationships among features, which leads to relatively poor performance compared with the model-aware methods. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jianming Lv , Sijun Xia , Depin Liang , Wei Chen

In this paper we develop a novel approach for estimating large and sparse dynamic factor models using variational inference, also allowing for missing data. Inspired by Bayesian variable selection, we apply slab-and-spike priors onto the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-14 Erik Spånberg

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

Due to its all-weather and day-and-night capabilities, Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery is essential for various applications such as disaster management, earth monitoring, change detection and target recognition. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Max Muzeau , Joana Frontera-Pons , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

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

This paper studies the sparse identification problem of unknown sparse parameter vectors in stochastic dynamic systems. Firstly, a novel sparse identification algorithm is proposed, which can generate sparse estimates based on least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Ziming Wang , Xinghua Zhu

In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for industrial defect detection that is modeled based on anomaly detection using point pattern data. Most recent works use \textit{global features} for feature extraction to summarize image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Ammar Mansoor Kamoona , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Reza Hoseinnezhad

We focus on the problem of identifying samples in a set that do not conform to structured patterns represented by low-dimensional manifolds. An effective way to solve this problem is to embed data in a high dimensional space, called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Abnormal stop detection (ASD) in intercity coach transportation is critical for ensuring passenger safety, operational reliability, and regulatory compliance. However, two key challenges hinder ASD effectiveness: sparse GPS trajectories,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Muhammad Ayub Sabir , Junbiao Pang , Jiaqi Wu , Fatima Ashraf

Sparse dynamics identification is an essential tool for discovering interpretable physical models and enabling efficient control in engineering systems. However, existing methods rely on batch learning with full historical data, limiting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jilan Mei , Tengjie Zheng , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong , Xu Huang

Event logs are widely used for anomaly detection and prediction in complex systems. Existing log-based anomaly detection methods usually consist of four main steps: log collection, log parsing, feature extraction, and anomaly detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhong Li , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Sparse learning techniques have been routinely used for feature selection as the resulting model usually has a small number of non-zero entries. Safe screening, which eliminates the features that are guaranteed to have zero coefficients for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Jun Liu , Zheng Zhao , Jie Wang , Jieping Ye