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In Machine Learning, feature selection entails selecting a subset of the available features in a dataset to use for model development. There are many motivations for feature selection, it may result in better models, it may provide insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Padraig Cunningham , Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan , Sarah Jane Delany

Feature selection is playing an increasingly significant role with respect to many computer vision applications spanning from object recognition to visual object tracking. However, most of the recent solutions in feature selection are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Alessandro Vinciarelli

Feature selection, as a critical pre-processing step for machine learning, aims at determining representative predictors from a high-dimensional feature space dataset to improve the prediction accuracy. However, the increase in feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Fatemeh Amini , Guiping Hu

Variable selection, also known as feature selection in machine learning, plays an important role in modeling high dimensional data and is key to data-driven scientific discoveries. We consider here the problem of detecting influential…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-24 Bo Jiang , Jun S. Liu

Feature transformation plays a critical role in enhancing machine learning model performance by optimizing data representations. Recent state-of-the-art approaches address this task as a continuous embedding optimization problem, converting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yang Gao , Dongjie Wang , Scott Piersall , Ye Zhang , Liqiang Wang

The explosion of data in recent years has generated an increasing need for new analysis techniques in order to extract knowledge from massive datasets. Machine learning has proved particularly useful to perform this task. Fully automatized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Antonio D'Isanto , Stefano Cavuoti , Fabian Gieseke , Kai Lars Polsterer

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to enable models to recognize novel objects or classes with limited labelled data. Feature generators, which synthesize new data points to augment limited datasets, have emerged as a promising solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Heethanjan Kanagalingam , Thenukan Pathmanathan , Navaneethan Ketheeswaran , Mokeeshan Vathanakumar , Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

Dynamic data selection accelerates training by sampling a changing subset of the dataset while preserving accuracy. We rethink two core notions underlying sample evaluation: representativeness and diversity. Instead of local geometric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yuzhe Zhou , Zhenglin Hua , Haiyun Guo , Yuheng Jia

Feature learning forms the cornerstone for tackling challenging learning problems in domains such as speech, computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we consider a novel class of matrix and tensor-valued features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Majid Janzamin , Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

We consider the problem of learning to choose from a given set of objects, where each object is represented by a feature vector. Traditional approaches in choice modelling are mainly based on learning a latent, real-valued utility function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Karlson Pfannschmidt , Eyke Hüllermeier

Feature selection is generally used as one of the most important preprocessing techniques in machine learning, as it helps to reduce the dimensionality of data and assists researchers and practitioners in understanding data. Thereby, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Yiwen Liao , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

By Emerging huge databases and the need to efficient learning algorithms on these datasets, new problems have appeared and some methods have been proposed to solve these problems by selecting efficient features. Feature selection is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Mitra Montazeri , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Aliakbar Niknafs

Feature selection methods have an important role on the readability of data and the reduction of complexity of learning algorithms. In recent years, a variety of efforts are investigated on feature selection problems based on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

Feature selection is important step in machine learning since it has shown to improve prediction accuracy while depressing the curse of dimensionality of high dimensional data. The neural networks have experienced tremendous success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Peter Bugata , Peter Drotar

Feature learning forms the cornerstone for tackling challenging learning problems in domains such as speech, computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we consider a novel class of matrix and tensor-valued features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Majid Janzamin , Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

Click-Through Rate prediction is an important task in recommender systems, which aims to estimate the probability of a user to click on a given item. Recently, many deep models have been proposed to learn low-order and high-order feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Bin Liu , Ruiming Tang , Yingzhi Chen , Jinkai Yu , Huifeng Guo , Yuzhou Zhang

High-dimensional data in many areas such as computer vision and machine learning tasks brings in computational and analytical difficulty. Feature selection which selects a subset from observed features is a widely used approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Chao Zhang , Chao Li , Chao Xu

A new line of research for feature selection based on neural networks has recently emerged. Despite its superiority to classical methods, it requires many training iterations to converge and detect informative features. The computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ghada Sokar , Zahra Atashgahi , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple resource-constrained edge devices with varying levels of heterogeneity to collaboratively train a global model. However, devices with limited capacity can create bottlenecks and slow down model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

Recently, feature selection has become an increasingly important area of research due to the surge in high-dimensional datasets in all areas of modern life. A plethora of feature selection algorithms have been proposed, but it is difficult…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Andrew Lensen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang