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High-dimensional clustering analysis is a challenging problem in statistics and machine learning, with broad applications such as the analysis of microarray data and RNA-seq data. In this paper, we propose a new clustering procedure called…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-31 Tianqi Liu , Yu Lu , Biqing Zhu , Hongyu Zhao

Many feature subset selection (FSS) algorithms have been proposed, but not all of them are appropriate for a given feature selection problem. At the same time, so far there is rarely a good way to choose appropriate FSS algorithms for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Guangtao Wang , Qinbao Song , Heli Sun , Xueying Zhang , Baowen Xu , Yuming Zhou

There exist many high-dimensional data in real-world applications such as biology, computer vision, and social networks. Feature selection approaches are devised to confront with high-dimensional data challenges with the aim of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

We are surrounded by huge amounts of large-scale high dimensional data. It is desirable to reduce the dimensionality of data for many learning tasks due to the curse of dimensionality. Feature selection has shown its effectiveness in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Jundong Li , Huan Liu

In many engineering and applied science domains, high-dimensional nonlinear filtering is still a challenging problem. Recent advances in score-based diffusion models offer a promising alternative for posterior sampling but require repeated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zhijun Zeng , Weiye Gan , Junqing Chen , Zuoqiang Shi

We propose a filtering feature selection framework that considers subsets of features as paths in a graph, where a node is a feature and an edge indicates pairwise (customizable) relations among features, dealing with relevance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Alessandro Vinciarelli , Marco Cristani

Sparse feature selection has been demonstrated to be effective in handling high-dimensional data. While promising, most of the existing works use convex methods, which may be suboptimal in terms of the accuracy of feature selection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Shuo Xiang , Xiaotong Shen , Jieping Ye

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

Feature selection is a critical step in the analysis of high-dimensional data, where the number of features often vastly exceeds the number of samples. Effective feature selection not only improves model performance and interpretability but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Raquel Espinosa , Gracia Sánchez , José Palma , Fernando Jiménez

This paper presents a new filter method for unsupervised feature selection. This method is particularly effective on imbalanced multi-class dataset, as in case of clusters of different anomaly types. Existing methods usually involve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Katarina Firdova , Céline Labart , Arthur Martel

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

Feature selection is a widely used dimension reduction technique to select feature subsets because of its interpretability. Many methods have been proposed and achieved good results, in which the relationships between adjacent data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Yan Min , Mao Ye , Liang Tian , Yulin Jian , Ce Zhu , Shangming Yang

Large-scale online marketplaces and recommender systems serve as critical technological support for e-commerce development. In industrial recommender systems, features play vital roles as they carry information for downstream models.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xianquan Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Jieming Zhu , Qinglin Jia , Zhenhua Dong , Kai Zhang

High-dimensional data is commonly encountered in numerous data analysis tasks. Feature selection techniques aim to identify the most representative features from the original high-dimensional data. Due to the absence of class label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yunhui Liang , Jianwen Gan , Yan Chen , Peng Zhou , Liang Du

As an effective data preprocessing step, feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many machine learning tasks. The proliferation of high di-mension and huge volume big data, however, has brought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ning Gui , Danni Ge , Ziyin Hu

Although multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) is an effective technology for reducing dimensionality in machine learning, existing methods cannot directly deal with incomplete multi-view data where some samples are missing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Tianrui Li , Fengmao Lv

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 is an important preprocessing step in machine learning and data mining. In real-world applications, costs, including money, time and other resources, are required to acquire the features. In some cases, there is a test…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Fan Min , Qinghua Hu , William Zhu

Feature Selection is a crucial procedure in Data Science tasks such as Classification, since it identifies the relevant variables, making thus the classification procedures more interpretable, cheaper in terms of measurement and more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rafael Blanquero , Emilio Carrizosa , Pepa Ramírez-Cobo