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This paper develops a framework for testing for associations in a possibly high-dimensional linear model where the number of features/variables may far exceed the number of observational units. In this framework, the observations are split…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-04 Rina Foygel Barber , Emmanuel J. Candes

The positive false discovery rate (pFDR) is a useful overall measure of errors for multiple hypothesis testing, especially when the underlying goal is to attain one or more discoveries. Control of pFDR critically depends on how much…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Zhiyi Chi

Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) are increasingly dependent on a large number of feature fields for more precise recommendations. Effective feature selection methods are consequently becoming critical for further enhancing the accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pengyue Jia , Yejing Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Wanyu Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

In the context of multiple hypotheses testing, the proportion $\pi_0$ of true null hypotheses in the pool of hypotheses to test often plays a crucial role, although it is generally unknown a priori. A testing procedure using an implicit or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Gilles Blanchard , Etienne Roquain

High-dimensional data in many machine learning applications leads to computational and analytical complexities. Feature selection provides an effective way for solving these problems by removing irrelevant and redundant features, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ali Mirzaei , Vahid Pourahmadi , Mehran Soltani , Hamid Sheikhzadeh

Despite the popularity of the false discovery rate (FDR) as an error control metric for large-scale multiple testing, its close Bayesian counterpart the local false discovery rate (lfdr), defined as the posterior probability that a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-22 Jake A. Soloff , Daniel Xiang , William Fithian

In the social sciences, it is often necessary to debias studies and surveys before valid conclusions can be drawn. Debiasing algorithms enable the computational removal of bias using sample weights. However, an issue arises when only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tony Hauptmann , Stefan Kramer

Estimating local false discovery rates (fdr) is central to large-scale multiple hypothesis testing, yet different methods often produce divergent results, and there is little guidance for selecting among them. Because ground truth…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-17 Jenna M. Landy , Giovanni Parmigiani

In many scenarios such as genome-wide association studies where dependences between variables commonly exist, it is often of interest to infer the interaction effects in the model. However, testing pairwise interactions among millions of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-02 Jingyi Duan , Yang Ning , Xi Chen , Yong Chen

Motivation: In microarray analysis, special consideration must be given to the issues of multiple statistical tests and typically p-values are adjusted to control family-wise error rate (FWER) or false discovery rate (FDR). FDR metrics have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Rishi L. Khan , Rajanikanth Vadigepalli , Guang Gao , James S. Schwaber

Feature selection (FS) has become an indispensable task in dealing with today's highly complex pattern recognition problems with massive number of features. In this study, we propose a new wrapper approach for FS based on binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-08 Vural Aksakalli , Milad Malekipirbazari

We propose a new method, semi-penalized inference with direct false discovery rate control (SPIDR), for variable selection and confidence interval construction in high-dimensional linear regression. SPIDR first uses a semi-penalized…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-02 Jian Huang , Shuangge Ma , Cun-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhou

Feature selection is crucial for pinpointing relevant features in high-dimensional datasets, mitigating the 'curse of dimensionality,' and enhancing machine learning performance. Traditional feature selection methods for classification use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rittwika Kansabanik , Adrian Barbu

The application of machine learning to image and video data often yields a high dimensional feature space. Effective feature selection techniques identify a discriminant feature subspace that lowers computational and modeling costs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yijing Yang , Wei Wang , Hongyu Fu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In modern scientific research, the objective is often to identify which variables are associated with an outcome among a large class of potential predictors. This goal can be achieved by selecting variables in a manner that controls the the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-10 Yushu Shi , Michael Martens

Unsupervised dimension selection is an important problem that seeks to reduce dimensionality of data, while preserving the most useful characteristics. While dimensionality reduction is commonly utilized to construct low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-01 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Rushil Anirudh , Rahul Sridhar , Peer-Timo Bremer

This paper presents a powerful methodology for flexible full-data nonparametric novelty detection that offers distribution-free false discovery rate (FDR) control guarantees. Building on the full conformal inference framework and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Junu Lee , Ilia Popov , Zhimei Ren

Feature selection is a dimensionality reduction technique that selects a subset of representative features from high dimensional data by eliminating irrelevant and redundant features. Recently, feature selection combined with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

When hypotheses are tested in a stream and real-time decision-making is needed, online sequential hypothesis testing procedures are needed. Furthermore, these hypotheses are commonly partitioned into groups by their nature. For example, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-05 Runqiu Wang , Ran Dai

Consider the online testing of a stream of hypotheses where a real--time decision must be made before the next data point arrives. The error rate is required to be controlled at {all} decision points. Conventional \emph{simultaneous testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-03 Bowen Gang , Wenguang Sun , Weinan Wang