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The representational capacity of modern neural network architectures has made them a default choice in various applications with high dimensional feature sets. But these high dimensional and potentially noisy features combined with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Vinay Varma K

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

Biological data including gene expression data are generally high-dimensional and require efficient, generalizable, and scalable machine-learning methods to discover their complex nonlinear patterns. The recent advances in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Dinesh Singh , Héctor Climente-González , Mathis Petrovich , Eiryo Kawakami , Makoto Yamada

The goal of feature selection is to choose the optimal subset of features for a recognition task by evaluating the importance of each feature, thereby achieving effective dimensionality reduction. Currently, proposed feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zhenxing Zhang , Jun Ge , Zheng Wei , Chunjie Zhou , Yilei Wang

Feature selection (FS) is a key research area in the machine learning and data mining fields, removing irrelevant and redundant features usually helps to reduce the effort required to process a dataset while maintaining or even improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Raul-Jose Palma-Mendoza , Daniel Rodriguez , Luis de-Marcos

Conventional mutual information (MI) based feature selection (FS) methods are unable to handle heterogeneous feature subset selection properly because of data format differences or estimation methods of MI between feature subset and class…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-31 Min Wei , Tommy W. S. Chow , Rosa H. M. Chan

Factor analysis, often regarded as a Bayesian variant of matrix factorization, offers superior capabilities in capturing uncertainty, modeling complex dependencies, and ensuring robustness. As the deep learning era arrives, factor analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zhibin Duan , Tiansheng Wen , Yifei Wang , Chen Zhu , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

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

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

Feature selection helps reduce data acquisition costs in ML, but the standard approach is to train models with static feature subsets. Here, we consider the dynamic feature selection (DFS) problem where a model sequentially queries features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ian Covert , Wei Qiu , Mingyu Lu , Nayoon Kim , Nathan White , Su-In Lee

Estimating dense correspondences between images is a long-standing image under-standing task. Recent works introduce convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract high-level feature maps and find correspondences through feature matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Hao Huang , Jianchun Chen , Xiang Li , Lingjing Wang , Yi Fang

In many real-world machine learning problems, feature values are not readily available. To make predictions, some of the missing features have to be acquired, which can incur a cost in money, computational time, or human time, depending on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Kimmo Kärkkäinen , Mohammad Kachuee , Orpaz Goldstein , Majid Sarrafzadeh

There have been several attempts to develop Feature Selection (FS) algorithms capable of identifying features that are relevant in a dataset. Although in certain applications the FS algorithms can be seen to be successful, they have similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Andrew Starkey , Uduak Idio Akpan , Omaimah AL Hosni , Yaseen Pullissery

Large-scale online marketplaces and recommender systems serve as critical technological support for e-commerce development. In industrial recommender systems, features play vital roles as they carry information for downstream models.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xianquan Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Jieming Zhu , Qinglin Jia , Zhenhua Dong , Kai Zhang

Unsupervised learning methods for feature extraction are becoming more and more popular. We combine the popular contrastive learning method (prototypical contrastive learning) and the classic representation learning method (autoencoder) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Zeyu Cao , Xiaorun Li , Liaoying Zhao

Feature selection is an essential process in machine learning, especially when dealing with high-dimensional datasets. It helps reduce the complexity of machine learning models, improve performance, mitigate overfitting, and decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Egor Kraev , Baran Koseoglu , Luca Traverso , Mohammed Topiwalla

We investigate feature selection problem for generic machine learning models. We introduce a novel framework that selects features considering the outcomes of the model. Our framework introduces a novel feature masking approach to eliminate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mehmet E. Lorasdagi , Mehmet Y. Turali , Suleyman S. Kozat

Feature selection aims to preprocess the target dataset, find an optimal and most streamlined feature subset, and enhance the downstream machine learning task. Among filter, wrapper, and embedded-based approaches, the reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Weiliang Zhang , Xiaohan Huang , Yi Du , Ziyue Qiao , Qingqing Long , Zhen Meng , Yuanchun Zhou , Meng Xiao

In recent years, there has been an ever increasing amount of multivariate time series (MTS) data in various domains, typically generated by a large family of sensors such as wearable devices. This has led to the development of novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kang Gu , Soroush Vosoughi , Temiloluwa Prioleau

We introduce a new method of performing high dimensional discriminant analysis, which we call multiDA. We achieve this by constructing a hybrid model that seamlessly integrates a multiclass diagonal discriminant analysis model and feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Sarah Elizabeth Romanes , John Thomas Ormerod , Jean YH Yang