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In text classification tasks, models often rely on spurious correlations for predictions, incorrectly associating irrelevant features with the target labels. This issue limits the robustness and generalization of models, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuqing Zhou , Ziwei Zhu

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

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) has recently gained attention for its effectiveness in processing unlabeled high-dimensional data. However, existing methods overlook the intrinsic causal mechanisms within the data, resulting in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zongxin Shen , Yanyong Huang , Dongjie Wang , Minbo Ma , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

Dynamic feature selection (DFS) addresses budget constraints in decision-making by sequentially acquiring features for each instance, making it appealing for resource-limited scenarios. However, existing DFS methods require models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

The amount of high-dimensional large-scale RNA sequencing data derived from multiple heterogeneous sources has increased exponentially in biological science. During data collection, significant technical noise or errors may occur. To…

Applications · Statistics 2025-06-24 Xiaolu Jiang , Wei Liu

Effective feature selection is essential for high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning. Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) aims to simultaneously cluster data and identify the most discriminative features. Most existing UFS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Feng Yu , MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder , Ying Su , Oscar Contreras Velasco

Causal representation learning seeks to uncover causal relationships among high-level latent variables from low-level, entangled, and noisy observations. Existing approaches often either rely on deep neural networks, which lack…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-27 Wenjin Zhang , Yixin Wang , Yuqi Gu

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized many fields, their fragility to carefully designed adversarial attacks impedes the usage of DNNs in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we strive to explore the robust features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hong Wang , Yuefan Deng , Shinjae Yoo , Yuewei Lin

A ubiquitous feature of data of our era is their extra-large sizes and dimensions. Analyzing such high-dimensional data poses significant challenges, since the feature dimension is often much larger than the sample size. This thesis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Kai Yang

Feature selection is an important pre-processing step for many pattern classification tasks. Traditionally, feature selection methods are designed to obtain a feature subset that can lead to high classification accuracy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-03 Rui Wang , Ke Tang

Learning the dynamic causal structure of time series is a challenging problem. Most existing approaches rely on distributional or structural invariance to uncover underlying causal dynamics, assuming stationary or partially stationary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dezhi Yang , Qiaoyu Tan , Carlotta Domeniconi , Jun Wang , Lizhen Cui , Guoxian Yu

We study identification and estimation of causal effects in settings with panel data. Traditionally researchers follow model-based identification strategies relying on assumptions governing the relation between the potential outcomes and…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-02-18 Dmitry Arkhangelsky , Guido W. Imbens

The ability to learn disentangled representations that split underlying sources of variation in high dimensional, unstructured data is important for data efficient and robust use of neural networks. While various approaches aiming towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Raphael Suter , Đorđe Miladinović , Bernhard Schölkopf , Stefan Bauer

Latent representations are critical for the performance and robustness of machine learning models, as they encode the essential features of data in a compact and informative manner. However, in vision tasks, these representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bruno Corcuera , Carlos Eiras-Franco , Brais Cancela

Causal inference has been increasingly reliant on observational studies with rich covariate information. To build tractable causal procedures, such as the doubly robust estimators, it is imperative to first extract important features from…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-08 Dingke Tang , Dehan Kong , Wenliang Pan , Linbo Wang

Feature selection, which is a technique to select key features in recommender systems, has received increasing research attention. Recently, Adaptive Feature Selection (AdaFS) has shown remarkable performance by adaptively selecting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Youngjune Lee , Yeongjong Jeong , Keunchan Park , SeongKu Kang

The robustness of fault detection algorithms against uncertainty is crucial in the real-world industrial environment. Recently, a new probabilistic design scheme called distributionally robust fault detection (DRFD) has emerged and received…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Yulin Feng , Hailang Jin , Steven X. Ding , Hao Ye , Chao Shang

Recently, many unsupervised deep learning methods have been proposed to learn clustering with unlabelled data. By introducing data augmentation, most of the latest methods look into deep clustering from the perspective that the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huasong Zhong , Chong Chen , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua

We study counterfactual classification as a new tool for decision-making under hypothetical (contrary to fact) scenarios. We propose a doubly-robust nonparametric estimator for a general counterfactual classifier, where we can incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Kwangho Kim , Edward H. Kennedy , José R. Zubizarreta

High-dimensional data are commonly seen in modern statistical applications, variable selection methods play indispensable roles in identifying the critical features for scientific discoveries. Traditional best subset selection methods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-29 Tianzhou Ma , Hongjie Ke , Zhao Ren