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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

Unsupervised feature selection (FS) is essential for high-dimensional learning tasks where labels are not available. It helps reduce noise, improve generalization, and enhance interpretability. However, most existing unsupervised FS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Shira Lifshitz , Ofir Lindenbaum , Gal Mishne , Ron Meir , Hadas Benisty

Feature selection that selects an informative subset of variables from data not only enhances the model interpretability and performance but also alleviates the resource demands. Recently, there has been growing attention on feature…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Zahra Atashgahi , Xuhao Zhang , Neil Kichler , Shiwei Liu , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Raymond Veldhuis , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

Missing data are a concern in many real world data sets and imputation methods are often needed to estimate the values of missing data, but data sets with excessive missingness and high dimensionality challenge most approaches to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Andrew J. Becker , James P. Bagrow

High-dimensional datasets depict a challenge for learning tasks in data mining and machine learning. Feature selection is an effective technique in dealing with dimensionality reduction. It is often an essential data processing step prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gustavo Sosa-Cabrera , Santiago Gómez-Guerrero , Miguel García-Torres , Christian E. Schaerer

Feature selection is a crucial step in developing robust and powerful machine learning models. Feature selection techniques can be divided into two categories: filter and wrapper methods. While wrapper methods commonly result in strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Jarne Verhaeghe , Jeroen Van Der Donckt , Femke Ongenae , Sofie Van Hoecke

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

Feature selection technology is a key technology of data dimensionality reduction. Becauseof the lack of label information of collected data samples, unsupervised feature selection has attracted more attention. The universality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaolin Lv , Liang Du , Peng Zhou , Peng Wu

Classic feature selection techniques remove those features that are either irrelevant or redundant, achieving a subset of relevant features that help to provide a better knowledge extraction. This allows the creation of compact models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Brais Cancela , Verónica Bolón-Canedo , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , João Gama

To deal with high-dimensional unlabeled datasets in many areas, principal component analysis (PCA) has become a rising technique for unsupervised feature selection (UFS). However, most existing PCA-based methods only consider the structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Xianchao Xiu , Chenyi Huang , Pan Shang , Wanquan Liu

In this paper, a new feature selection algorithm, called SFE (Simple, Fast, and Efficient), is proposed for high-dimensional datasets. The SFE algorithm performs its search process using a search agent and two operators: non-selection and…

We propose a novel methodology for feature screening in clustering massive datasets, in which both the number of features and the number of observations can potentially be very large. Taking advantage of a fusion penalization based convex…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-05 Trambak Banerjee , Gourab Mukherjee , Peter Radchenko

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

Feature selection is an important tool to deal with high dimensional data. In unsupervised case, many popular algorithms aim at maintaining the structure of the original data. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-06 Xiaoyun Li , Chengxi Wu , Ping Li

Feature selection refers to the process of selecting useful features for machine learning tasks, and it is also a key step for structural health monitoring (SHM). This paper proposes a fast feature selection algorithm by efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-11 Sikai Zhang , Tingna Wang , Keith Worden , Limin Sun , Elizabeth J. Cross

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) is an important task in data engineering. However, most UFS methods construct models from a single perspective and often fail to simultaneously evaluate feature importance and preserve their inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jingjing Liu , Xiansen Ju , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

Many computer vision and medical imaging problems are faced with learning from large-scale datasets, with millions of observations and features. In this paper we propose a novel efficient learning scheme that tightens a sparsity constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-07 Adrian Barbu , Yiyuan She , Liangjing Ding , Gary Gramajo

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

Feature selection is a preprocessing step which plays a crucial role in the domain of machine learning and data mining. Feature selection methods have been shown to be effctive in removing redundant and irrelevant features, improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiongshi Deng , Min Li , Lei Wang , Qikang Wan

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