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In this paper, a novel feature selection approach for supervised interval valued features is proposed. The proposed approach takes care of selecting the class specific features through interval K-Means clustering. The kernel of K-Means…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-01 D. S. Guru , N. Vinay Kumar

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

Feature selection methods are widely used to address the high computational overheads and curse of dimensionality in classifying high-dimensional data. Most conventional feature selection methods focus on handling homogeneous features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xuyang Yan , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Biniam Gebru , Shabnam Nazmi , Abdollah Homaifar

Unsupervised feature selection has drawn wide attention in the era of big data since it is a primary technique for dimensionality reduction. However, many existing unsupervised feature selection models and solution methods were presented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Yan Li , Defeng Sun , Liping Zhang

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) is widely applied in machine learning and pattern recognition. However, most of the existing methods only consider a single sparsity, which makes it difficult to select valuable and discriminative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Xianchao Xiu , Anning Yang , Chenyi Huang , Xinrong Li , Wanquan Liu

Feature selection technology is a key technology of data dimensionality reduction. Becauseof the lack of label information of collected data samples, unsupervised feature selection has attracted more attention. The universality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaolin Lv , Liang Du , Peng Zhou , Peng Wu

This paper presents a new filter method for unsupervised feature selection. This method is particularly effective on imbalanced multi-class dataset, as in case of clusters of different anomaly types. Existing methods usually involve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Katarina Firdova , Céline Labart , Arthur Martel

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning and knowledge discovery. By selecting the most informative features and eliminating irrelevant ones, the performance of learning algorithms can be improved and the extraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chunxu Cao , Qiang Zhang

Feature selection is a widely used dimension reduction technique to select feature subsets because of its interpretability. Many methods have been proposed and achieved good results, in which the relationships between adjacent data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Yan Min , Mao Ye , Liang Tian , Yulin Jian , Ce Zhu , Shangming Yang

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

High-dimensional data is commonly encountered in numerous data analysis tasks. Feature selection techniques aim to identify the most representative features from the original high-dimensional data. Due to the absence of class label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yunhui Liang , Jianwen Gan , Yan Chen , Peng Zhou , Liang Du

One of the applications of center-based clustering algorithms such as K-Means is partitioning data points into K clusters. In some examples, the feature space relates to the underlying problem we are trying to solve, and sometimes we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ali Hassani , Amir Iranmanesh , Mahdi Eftekhari , Abbas Salemi

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high dimensional spaces is crucial for many real-life applications (e.g., e-commerce, web, multimedia, etc.) dealing with an abundance of data. This paper proposes an end-to-end learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Abrar Fahim , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Scientific observations may consist of a large number of variables (features). Identifying a subset of meaningful features is often ignored in unsupervised learning, despite its potential for unraveling clear patterns hidden in the ambient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ofir Lindenbaum , Uri Shaham , Jonathan Svirsky , Erez Peterfreund , Yuval Kluger

Latent representations are critical for the performance and robustness of machine learning models, as they encode the essential features of data in a compact and informative manner. However, in vision tasks, these representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bruno Corcuera , Carlos Eiras-Franco , Brais Cancela

The K-means algorithm is among the most commonly used data clustering methods. However, the regular K-means can only be applied in the input space and it is applicable when clusters are linearly separable. The kernel K-means, which extends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Amir Aradnia , Maryam Amir Haeri , Mohammad Mehdi Ebadzadeh

In single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), K-means clustering algorithm is widely used in unsupervised 2D classification of projection images of biological macromolecules. 3D ab initio reconstruction requires accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-03 Yaofang Xu , Jiayi Wu , Chang-Cheng Yin , Youdong Mao

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS), which selects informative features from multi-view unlabeled data, has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. Although great efforts have been devoted to MUFS, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Minghui Lu , Yanyong Huang , Minbo Ma , Jinyuan Chang , Dongjie Wang , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

In this paper, we present a new feature selection method that is suitable for both unsupervised and supervised problems. We build upon the recently proposed Infinite Feature Selection (IFS) method where feature subsets of all sizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Sadegh Eskandari , Emre Akbas

Although multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has demonstrated success in dimensionality reduction for unlabeled multi-view data, most existing methods reduce feature redundancy by focusing on linear correlations among features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yalan Tan , Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li