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Sparse Bayesian learning is a state-of-the-art supervised learning algorithm that can choose a subset of relevant samples from the input data and make reliable probabilistic predictions. However, in the presence of high-dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Bingbing Jiang , Chang Li , Maarten de Rijke , Xin Yao , Huanhuan Chen

Feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning, especially for high-dimensional datasets, where irrelevant and redundant features can degrade model performance and increase computational costs. This paper proposes a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan

Feature selection, in the context of machine learning, is the process of separating the highly predictive feature from those that might be irrelevant or redundant. Information theory has been recognized as a useful concept for this task, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Catuscia Palamidessi , Marco Romanelli

Feature selection is a classical problem in statistics and machine learning, and it continues to remain an extremely challenging problem especially in the context of unknown non-linear relationships with dependent features. On the other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-17 Chenghui Zheng , Garvesh Raskutti

Transformer-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable success in various sequence-based tasks. However, traditional self-attention models may not sufficiently capture the intricate dependencies within items in sequential recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuli Liu , Min Liu , Xiaojing Liu

We propose a novel technique for algorithm-selection, applicable to optimisation domains in which there is implicit sequential information encapsulated in the data, e.g., in online bin-packing. Specifically we train two types of recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Mohamad Alissa , Kevin Sim , Emma Hart

In this paper we consider a problem of searching a space of predictive models for a given training data set. We propose an iterative procedure for deriving a sequence of improving models and a corresponding sequence of sets of non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michael Tetelman

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

Feature selection is beneficial for improving the performance of general machine learning tasks by extracting an informative subset from the high-dimensional features. Conventional feature selection methods usually ignore the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Meng Liu , Chang Xu , Yong Luo , Chao Xu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in super-resolution (SR). However, most CNN-based SR methods neglect the different importance among feature channels or fail to take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yue Lu , Yun Zhou , Zhuqing Jiang , Xiaoqiang Guo , Zixuan Yang

In many real-world scenarios where data is high dimensional, test time acquisition of features is a non-trivial task due to costs associated with feature acquisition and evaluating feature value. The need for highly confident models with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Orpaz Goldstein , Mohammad Kachuee , Kimmo Karkkainen , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Aiming at the problems that the convolutional neural networks neglect to capture the inherent attributes of natural images and extract features only in a single scale in the field of image super-resolution reconstruction, a network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Jiawen Lyn , Sen Yan

In this paper we propose to augment a modern neural-network architecture with an attention model inspired by human perception. Specifically, we adversarially train and analyze a neural model incorporating a human inspired, visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Daniel Zoran , Mike Chrzanowski , Po-Sen Huang , Sven Gowal , Alex Mott , Pushmeet Kohl

Attention mechanisms in biological perception are thought to select subsets of perceptual information for more sophisticated processing which would be prohibitive to perform on all sensory inputs. In computer vision, however, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Carl Doersch , Adam Santoro , Peter Battaglia

Unions of subspaces provide a powerful generalization to linear subspace models for collections of high-dimensional data. To learn a union of subspaces from a collection of data, sets of signals in the collection that belong to the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Eva L. Dyer , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Richard G. Baraniuk

Selectivity estimation - the problem of estimating the result size of queries - is a fundamental problem in databases. Accurate estimation of query selectivity involving multiple correlated attributes is especially challenging. Poor…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shohedul Hasan , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Jees Augustine , Nick Koudas , Gautam Das

In this article, we propose a new algorithm for supervised learning methods, by which one can both capture the non-linearity in data and also find the best subset model. To produce an enhanced subset of the original variables, an ideal…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-23 Peyman Tavallali , Marianne Razavi , Sean Brady

Large annotated datasets are crucial for the success of deep neural networks, but labeling data can be prohibitively expensive in domains such as medical imaging. This work tackles the subset selection problem: selecting a small set of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

Convolutional neural networks model the transformation of the input sensory data at the bottom of a network hierarchy to the semantic information at the top of the visual hierarchy. Feedforward processing is sufficient for some object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

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