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Mutual information (MI) is a promising candidate measure for the assessment and optimization of localization systems, as it captures nonlinear dependencies between random variables. However, the high cost of computing MI, especially for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Sven Hinderer , Manuel Buchfink , Bin Yang

Combining information from different sources is a common way to improve classification accuracy in Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI). For instance, in small sample settings it is useful to integrate data from other subjects or sessions in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-24 Wojciech Samek , Alexander Binder , Klaus-Robert Müller

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection has been proven to be efficient in reducing the dimensionality of multi-view unlabeled data with high dimensions. The previous methods assume all of the views are complete. However, in real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yanyong Huang , Kejun Guo , Xiuwen Yi , Zhong Li , Tianrui Li

Effective feature selection, representation and transformation are principal steps in machine learning to improve prediction accuracy, model generalization and computational efficiency. Reinforcement learning provides a new perspective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sumana Sanyasipura Nagaraju

Leveraging biased click data for optimizing learning to rank systems has been a popular approach in information retrieval. Because click data is often noisy and biased, a variety of methods have been proposed to construct unbiased learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Tao Yang , Shikai Fang , Shibo Li , Yulan Wang , Qingyao Ai

Feature ranking and selection is a widely used approach in various applications of supervised dimensionality reduction in discriminative machine learning. Nevertheless there exists significant evidence on feature ranking and selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ozan Ozdenizci , Deniz Erdogmus

Feature selection can facilitate the learning of mixtures of discrete random variables as they arise, e.g. in crowdsourcing tasks. Intuitively, not all workers are equally reliable but, if the less reliable ones could be eliminated, then…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-28 Vincent Zhao , Steven W. Zucker

Maximum mutual information (MMI) is a model selection criterion used for hidden Markov model (HMM) parameter estimation that was developed more than twenty years ago as a discriminative alternative to the maximum likelihood criterion for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-02-04 Steven Wegmann

Traditional Collaborative Filtering (CF) based methods are applied to understand the personal preferences of users/customers for items or products from the rating matrix. Usually, the rating matrix is sparse in nature. So there are some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Supriyo Mandal , Abyayananda Maiti

Cold-start challenges in recommender systems necessitate leveraging auxiliary features beyond user-item interactions. However, the presence of irrelevant or noisy features can degrade predictive performance, whereas an excessive number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Nikita Sukhorukov , Danil Gusak , Evgeny Frolov

As the final stage of the multi-stage recommender system (MRS), reranking directly affects users' experience and satisfaction, thus playing a critical role in MRS. Despite the improvement achieved in the existing work, three issues are yet…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yunjia Xi , Weiwen Liu , Jieming Zhu , Xilong Zhao , Xinyi Dai , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Rui Zhang , Yong Yu

Giving or recommending appropriate content based on the quality of experience is the most important and challenging issue in recommender systems. As collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most prominent and popular techniques used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Cong Tran , Jang-Young Kim , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Wook Kim

For multimodal large language models (MLLMs), visual information is relatively sparse compared with text. As a result, research on visual pruning emerges for efficient inference. Current approaches typically measure token importance based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiameng Li , Aleksei Tiulpin , Matthew B. Blaschko

Markov blanket feature selection, while theoretically optimal, is generally challenging to implement. This is due to the shortcomings of existing approaches to conditional independence (CI) testing, which tend to struggle either with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alan Yang , AmirEmad Ghassami , Maxim Raginsky , Negar Kiyavash , Elyse Rosenbaum

Multi-label feature selection (FS) reduces the dimensionality of multi-label data by removing irrelevant, noisy, and redundant features, thereby boosting the performance of multi-label learning models. However, existing methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

In recent years the importance of finding a meaningful pattern from huge datasets has become more challenging. Data miners try to adopt innovative methods to face this problem by applying feature selection methods. In this paper we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Mehdi Naseriparsa , Amir-masoud Bidgoli , Touraj Varaee

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS), which selects informative features from multi-view unlabeled data, has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. Although great efforts have been devoted to MUFS, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Minghui Lu , Yanyong Huang , Minbo Ma , Jinyuan Chang , Dongjie Wang , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

Not all real-world data are labeled, and when labels are not available, it is often costly to obtain them. Moreover, as many algorithms suffer from the curse of dimensionality, reducing the features in the data to a smaller set is often of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chiara Balestra , Florian Huber , Andreas Mayr , Emmanuel Müller

With the rapid growth of data, it is becoming increasingly difficult to train or improve deep learning models with the right subset of data. We show that this problem can be effectively solved at an additional labeling cost by targeted data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Suraj Kothawade , Vishal Kaushal , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Jeff Bilmes , Rishabh Iyer

Multiple kernel learning (MKL) algorithms combine different base kernels to obtain a more efficient representation in the feature space. Focusing on discriminative tasks, MKL has been used successfully for feature selection and finding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer