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Many real-world machine learning applications are characterized by a huge number of features, leading to computational and memory issues, as well as the risk of overfitting. Ideally, only relevant and non-redundant features should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Paolo Bonetti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Raquel Espinosa , Gracia Sánchez , José Palma , Fernando Jiménez

The amount of data for machine learning (ML) applications is constantly growing. Not only the number of observations, especially the number of measured variables (features) increases with ongoing digitization. Selecting the most appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Konstantin Hopf , Sascha Reifenrath

Feature selection is a problem of finding efficient features among all features in which the final feature set can improve accuracy and reduce complexity. In feature selection algorithms search strategies are key aspects. Since feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Mohadeseh Montazeri , Hamid Reza Naji , Mitra Montazeri , Ahmad Faraahi

Feature importance ranking has become a powerful tool for explainable AI. However, its nature of combinatorial optimization poses a great challenge for deep learning. In this paper, we propose a novel dual-net architecture consisting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Maksymilian Wojtas , Ke Chen

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

In this paper, we present a new adaptive feature scaling scheme for ultrahigh-dimensional feature selection on Big Data. To solve this problem effectively, we first reformulate it as a convex semi-infinite programming (SIP) problem and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mingkui Tan , Ivor W. Tsang , Li Wang

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

Feature transformation aims to extract a good representation (feature) space by mathematically transforming existing features. It is crucial to address the curse of dimensionality, enhance model generalization, overcome data sparsity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Kunpeng Liu , Hui Xiong , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

We propose a new optimization-based approach for feature selection in tree ensembles, an important problem in statistics and machine learning. Popular tree ensemble toolkits e.g., Gradient Boosted Trees and Random Forests support feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shibal Ibrahim , Kayhan Behdin , Rahul Mazumder

We propose an approach without any forgetting to continual learning for the task-aware regime, where at inference the task-label is known. By using ternary masks we can upgrade a model to new tasks, reusing knowledge from previous tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Marc Masana , Tinne Tuytelaars , Joost van de Weijer

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Lucas Biaggi , João P. Papa , Kelton A. P Costa , Danillo R. Pereira , Leandro A. Passos

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Katsumi Takahashi , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

A supervised feature selection method selects an appropriate but concise set of features to differentiate classes, which is highly expensive for large-scale datasets. Therefore, feature selection should aim at both minimizing the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sevil Zanjani Miyandoab , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning, especially for high-dimensional datasets, where irrelevant and redundant features can degrade model performance and increase computational costs. This paper proposes a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan

Large-scale Hierarchical Classification (HC) involves datasets consisting of thousands of classes and millions of training instances with high-dimensional features posing several big data challenges. Feature selection that aims to select…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Azad Naik , Huzefa Rangwala

Feature selection is a crucial step in building machine learning models. This process is often achieved with accuracy as an objective, and can be cumbersome and computationally expensive for large-scale datasets. Several additional model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Shubham Sharma , Sanghamitra Dutta , Emanuele Albini , Freddy Lecue , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Feature selection is one of the most decisive tools in understanding data and machine learning models. Among other methods, sparsity induced by $L^{1}$ penalty is one of the simplest and best studied approaches to this problem. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Andrii Trelin , Aleš Procházka