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This paper discusses the critical decision process of extracting or selecting the features in a supervised learning context. It is often confusing to find a suitable method to reduce dimensionality. There are pros and cons to deciding…

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Learning discriminative deep feature embeddings by using million-scale in-the-wild datasets and margin-based softmax loss is the current state-of-the-art approach for face recognition. However, the memory and computing cost of the Fully…

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Feature construction can contribute to comprehensibility and performance of machine learning models. Unfortunately, it usually requires exhaustive search in the attribute space or time-consuming human involvement to generate meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Boštjan Vouk , Matej Guid , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Based on further studying the low-rank subspace clustering (LRSC) and L2-graph subspace clustering algorithms, we propose a F-graph subspace clustering algorithm with a symmetric constraint (FSSC), which constructs a new objective function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kai Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Wen-Bo Hu

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

While the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) problems have been greatly developed in the past years, the Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) problems have been understudied. FGVC aims at classifying objects from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zicheng Pan , Xiaohan Yu , Miaohua Zhang , Yongsheng Gao

Classification of functional data where observations are curves or trajectories poses unique challenges, particularly under severe class imbalance. Traditional Random Forest algorithms, while robust for tabular data, often fail to capture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Fahad Mostafa , Hafiz Khan

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed collaborative machine learning (ML) framework under privacy-preserving constraints, has garnered increasing research attention in cross-organizational data collaboration scenarios. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wenyou Guo , Ting Qu , Chunrong Pan , George Q. Huang

Feature selection can select important features to address dimensional curses. Subspace learning, a widely used dimensionality reduction method, can project the original data into a low-dimensional space. However, the low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qiong Liu , Mingjie Cai , Qingguo Li

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

We present the Parallel, Forward-Backward with Pruning (PFBP) algorithm for feature selection (FS) in Big Data settings (high dimensionality and/or sample size). To tackle the challenges of Big Data FS PFBP partitions the data matrix both…

Feature selection is one of the most challenging issues in machine learning, especially while working with high dimensional data. In this paper, we address the problem of feature selection and propose a new approach called Evolving Fast and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Uzay Cetin , Yunus Emre Gundogmus

In machine learning, Feature Selection (FS) is a major part of efficient algorithm. It fuels the algorithm and is the starting block for our prediction. In this paper, we present a new method, called Optimal Coordinate Ascent (OCA) that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 David Saltiel , Eric Benhamou

Functional mixed models are widely useful for regression analysis with dependent functional data, including longitudinal functional data with scalar predictors. However, existing algorithms for Bayesian inference with these models only…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-14 Thomas Y. Sun , Daniel R. Kowal

The amount of information in the form of features and variables avail- able to machine learning algorithms is ever increasing. This can lead to classifiers that are prone to overfitting in high dimensions, high di- mensional models do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Aaron Karper

Feature selection is crucial for fuzzy decision systems (FDSs), as it identifies informative features and eliminates rule redundancy, thereby enhancing predictive performance and interpretability. Most existing methods either fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Suping Xu , Chuyi Dai , Ye Liu , Lin Shang , Xibei Yang , Witold Pedrycz

Considering the high volume, wide variety, and rapid speed of data generation, investigating feature selection methods for big data presents various applications and advantages. By removing irrelevant and redundant features, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mohammad Hossein Safarpour , Seyed Majid Alavi , Mohammad Izadikhah , Hossein Dibachi

Feature selection (FS) is a fundamental challenge in machine learning, particularly for high-dimensional tabular data, where interpretability and computational efficiency are critical. Existing FS methods often cannot automatically detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Witold Wydmański , Marek Śmieja

Centroid-based methods including k-means and fuzzy c-means are known as effective and easy-to-implement approaches to clustering purposes in many applications. However, these algorithms cannot be directly applied to supervised tasks. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Pooya Ashtari , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Hamid Beigy