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The dramatic growth of big datasets presents a new challenge to data storage and analysis. Data reduction, or subsampling, that extracts useful information from datasets is a crucial step in big data analysis. We propose an orthogonal…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-01 Lin Wang , Jake Elmstedt , Weng Kee Wong , Hongquan Xu

Coreset selection is powerful in reducing computational costs and accelerating data processing for deep learning algorithms. It strives to identify a small subset from large-scale data, so that training only on the subset practically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xiaobo Xia , Jiale Liu , Shaokun Zhang , Qingyun Wu , Hongxin Wei , Tongliang Liu

Selecting relevant features is an important and necessary step for intelligent machines to maximize their chances of success. However, intelligent machines generally have no enough computing resources when faced with huge volume of data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hexiang Bai , Deyu Li , Jiye Liang , Yanhui Zhai

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

In an ordinary feature selection procedure, a set of important features is obtained by solving an optimization problem such as the Lasso regression problem, and we expect that the obtained features explain the data well. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-16 Satoshi Hara , Takanori Maehara

In high-dimensional generalized linear models, it is crucial to identify a sparse model that adequately accounts for response variation. Although the best subset section has been widely regarded as the Holy Grail of problems of this type,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-02 Junxian Zhu , Jin Zhu , Borui Tang , Xuanyu Chen , Hongmei Lin , Xueqin Wang

In the big data era researchers face a series of problems. Even standard approaches/methodologies, like linear regression, can be difficult or problematic with huge volumes of data. Traditional approaches for regression in big datasets may…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-13 Vasilis Chasiotis , Dimitris Karlis

We formulate selecting the best optimizing system (SBOS) problems and provide solutions for those problems. In an SBOS problem, a finite number of systems are contenders. Inside each system, a continuous decision variable affects the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-04 Nian Si , Yifu Tang , Zeyu Zheng

Feature selection is popular for obtaining small, interpretable, yet highly accurate prediction models. Conventional feature-selection methods typically yield one feature set only, which might not suffice in some scenarios. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jakob Bach

A significant hurdle for analyzing large sample data is the lack of effective statistical computing and inference methods. An emerging powerful approach for analyzing large sample data is subsampling, by which one takes a random subsample…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-24 Rong Zhu , Ping Ma , Michael W. Mahoney , Bin Yu

Given a set of data, biclustering aims at finding simultaneous partitions in biclusters of its samples and of the features which are used for representing the samples. Consistent biclusterings allow to obtain correct classifications of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-18 Antonio Mucherino , Sonia Cafieri

Analysis of high-dimensional data has led to increased interest in both single index models (SIMs) and the best-subset selection. SIMs provide an interpretable and flexible modeling framework for high-dimensional data, while the best-subset…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 Borui Tang , Jin Zhu , Junxian Zhu , Xueqin Wang , Heping Zhang

We study the fundamental problem of selecting optimal features for model construction. This problem is computationally challenging on large datasets, even with the use of greedy algorithm variants. To address this challenge, we extend the…

Optimization problems with the objective function in the form of weighted sum and linear equality constraints are considered. Given that the number of local cost functions can be large as well as the number of constraints, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Sanja Rapajić , Luka Rutešić

This paper introduces two novel criteria: one for feature selection and another for feature elimination in the context of best subset selection, which is a benchmark problem in statistics and machine learning. From the perspective of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Zhihan Zhu , Yanhao Zhang , Yong Xia

We study the optimal sample complexity of variable selection in linear regression under general design covariance, and show that subset selection is optimal while under standard complexity assumptions, efficient algorithms for this problem…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Ming Gao , Bryon Aragam

If the assumed model does not accurately capture the underlying structure of the data, a statistical method is likely to yield sub-optimal results, and so model selection is crucial in order to conduct any statistical analysis. However, in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-21 Vasilis Chasiotis , Dimitris Karlis

Subsampling algorithms are a natural approach to reduce data size before fitting models on massive datasets. In recent years, several works have proposed methods for subsampling rows from a data matrix while maintaining relevant information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Fred Lu , Edward Raff , James Holt

As computer resources become increasingly limited, traditional statistical methods face challenges in analyzing massive data, especially in functional data analysis. To address this issue, subsampling offers a viable solution by…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-01 Jingxiang Pan , Xiaohui Yuan , Xiaohui Yuan

In clinical trials and other applications, we often see regions of the feature space that appear to exhibit interesting behaviour, but it is unclear whether these observed phenomena are reflected at the population level. Focusing on a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Henry W. J. Reeve , Timothy I. Cannings , Richard J. Samworth