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In recent years, feature selection has become a challenging problem in several machine learning fields, such as classification problems. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a well-known technique applied in classification tasks. Various…

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Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques to simple transfer learning baselines. With the emergence of…

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Feature selection is a critical step in the analysis of high-dimensional data, where the number of features often vastly exceeds the number of samples. Effective feature selection not only improves model performance and interpretability but…

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Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in medical image analysis, offering the potential to provide generalizable, task-agnostic solutions across a wide range of clinical tasks and imaging modalities. Their…

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As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

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Multi-modal learning, which focuses on utilizing various modalities to improve the performance of a model, is widely used in video recognition. While traditional multi-modal learning offers excellent recognition results, its computational…

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We study the problem of selecting limited features to observe such that models trained on them can perform well simultaneously across multiple subpopulations. This problem has applications in settings where collecting each feature is…

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Identifying anomalies has become one of the primary strategies towards security and protection procedures in computer networks. In this context, machine learning-based methods emerge as an elegant solution to identify such scenarios and…

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Few-shot learning (FSL) based on manifold regularization aims to improve the recognition capacity of novel objects with limited training samples by mixing two samples from different categories with a blending factor. However, this mixing…

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Feature selection is vital for building effective predictive models, as it reduces dimensionality and emphasizes key features. However, current research often suffers from limited benchmarking and reliance on proprietary datasets. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Vanderson Rocha , Diego Kreutz , Gabriel Canto , Hendrio Bragança , Eduardo Feitosa

We propose a novel reinforcement learning-based approach for adaptive and iterative feature selection. Given a masked vector of input features, a reinforcement learning agent iteratively selects certain features to be unmasked, and uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Uri Shaham , Tom Zahavy , Cesar Caraballo , Shiwani Mahajan , Daisy Massey , Harlan Krumholz

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

Feature modeling, which involves feature representation learning and leveraging, plays an essential role in industrial recommendation systems. However, the data distribution in real-world applications usually follows a highly skewed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yongchun Zhu , Jingwu Chen , Ling Chen , Yitan Li , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

By removing irrelevant and redundant features, feature selection aims to find a good representation of the original features. With the prevalence of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature selection has been proven effective in alleviating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ziyuan Lin , Deanna Needell

The large language model (LLM) is typically integrated into the mainstream optimization protocol. No work has questioned whether maintaining the model integrity is \textit{indispensable} for promising performance. In this work, we introduce…

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Machine learning models usually assume that a set of feature values used to obtain an output is fixed in advance. However, in many real-world problems, a cost is associated with measuring these features. To address the issue of reducing…

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Feature selection often leads to increased model interpretability, faster computation, and improved model performance by discarding irrelevant or redundant features. While feature selection is a well-studied problem with many widely-used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-12 Tianyi Yao , Genevera I. Allen

In this paper, we study the problem of balancing effectiveness and efficiency in automated feature selection. Feature selection is a fundamental intelligence for machine learning and predictive analysis. After exploring many feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wei Fan , Kunpeng Liu , Hao Liu , Pengyang Wang , Yong Ge , Yanjie Fu

Feature selection with specific multivariate performance measures is the key to the success of many applications, such as image retrieval and text classification. The existing feature selection methods are usually designed for…

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