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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks represent a persistent and evolving threat to modern networked systems, capable of causing large-scale service disruptions. The complexity of such attacks, often hidden within high-dimensional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Harsh Patel

With the decreasing cost of data collection, the space of variables or features that can be used to characterize a particular predictor of interest continues to grow exponentially. Therefore, identifying the most characterizing features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Sali Rasoul , Sodiq Adewole , Alphonse Akakpo

In this article, we propose a new algorithm for supervised learning methods, by which one can both capture the non-linearity in data and also find the best subset model. To produce an enhanced subset of the original variables, an ideal…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-23 Peyman Tavallali , Marianne Razavi , Sean Brady

Aiming at improving performance of visual classification in a cost-effective manner, this paper proposes an incremental semi-supervised learning paradigm called Deep Co-Space (DCS). Unlike many conventional semi-supervised learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Ziliang Chen , Keze Wang , Xiao Wang , Pai Peng , Ebroul Izquierdo , Liang Lin

Feature selection in reinforcement learning (RL), i.e. choosing basis functions such that useful approximations of the unkown value function can be obtained, is one of the main challenges in scaling RL to real-world applications. Here we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Tobias Jung , Peter Stone

This paper introduces a novel approach to active feature acquisition for classification, which is the task of sequentially selecting the most informative subset of features to achieve optimal prediction performance during testing while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ali Mirzaei , Vahid Pourahmadi , Hamid Sheikhzadeh , Alireza Abdollahpourrostam

Machine- and deep-learning approaches for biological sequences depend critically on transforming raw DNA, RNA, and protein FASTA files into informative numerical representations. However, this process is often fragmented across multiple…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-01 Hamid Ismail , Marwan Bikdash

Machine learning algorithms have difficulties to generalize over a small set of examples. Humans can perform such a task by exploiting vast amount of background knowledge they possess. One method for enhancing learning algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Michal Badian , Shaul Markovitch

Incorporating feature selection into a classification or regression method often carries a number of advantages. In this paper we formalize feature selection specifically from a discriminative perspective of improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Tony S. Jebara , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Feature selection is a pattern recognition approach to choose important variables according to some criteria to distinguish or explain certain phenomena. There are many genomic and proteomic applications which rely on feature selection to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Fabricio Martins Lopes , David Correa Martins-Jr , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr

In recent years neural networks have achieved impressive results on many technological and scientific tasks. Yet, the mechanism through which these models automatically select features, or patterns in data, for prediction remains unclear.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Daniel Beaglehole , Parthe Pandit , Mikhail Belkin

This study introduces a novel expert generation method that dynamically reduces task and computational complexity without compromising predictive performance. It is based on a new hierarchical classification network topology that combines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 André Kelm , Niels Hannemann , Bruno Heberle , Lucas Schmidt , Tim Rolff , Christian Wilms , Ehsan Yaghoubi , Simone Frintrop

Feature selection is a critical step in data-driven applications, reducing input dimensionality to enhance learning accuracy, computational efficiency, and interpretability. Existing state-of-the-art methods often require post-selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Pedram Pad , Hadi Hammoud , Mohamad Dia , Nadim Maamari , L. Andrea Dunbar

Feature selection is a powerful dimension reduction technique which selects a subset of relevant features for model construction. Numerous feature selection methods have been proposed, but most of them fail under the high-dimensional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Can Chen , Scott T. Weiss , Yang-Yu Liu

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

We develop a novel compositional generative model for zero- and few-shot learning to recognize fine-grained classes with a few or no training samples. Our key observation is that generating holistic features for fine-grained classes fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Dat Huynh , Ehsan Elhamifar

In order to encode the class correlation and class specific information in image representation, we propose a new local feature learning approach named Deep Discriminative and Shareable Feature Learning (DDSFL). DDSFL aims to hierarchically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Zhen Zuo , Gang Wang , Bing Shuai , Lifan Zhao , Qingxiong Yang

Much work has been done recently to make neural networks more interpretable, and one obvious approach is to arrange for the network to use only a subset of the available features. In linear models, Lasso (or $\ell_1$-regularized) regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Ismael Lemhadri , Feng Ruan , Louis Abraham , Robert Tibshirani

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 this paper a hybrid feature selection method is proposed which takes advantages of wrapper subset evaluation with a lower cost and improves the performance of a group of classifiers. The method uses combination of sample domain filtering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Mehdi Naseriparsa , Amir-Masoud Bidgoli , Touraj Varaee