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Feature selection has been proven a powerful preprocessing step for high-dimensional data analysis. However, most state-of-the-art methods tend to overlook the structural correlation information between pairwise samples, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Lu Bai , Lixin Cui , Yue Wang , Philip S. Yu , Edwin R. Hancock

Incomplete multi-view unsupervised feature selection (IMUFS), which aims to identify representative features from unlabeled multi-view data containing missing values, has received growing attention in recent years. Despite their promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zongxin Shen , Yanyong Huang , Dongjie Wang , Jinyuan Chang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li , Xiaoyi Jiang

In myriad statistical applications, data are collected from related but heterogeneous sources. These sources share some commonalities while containing idiosyncratic characteristics. One of the most fundamental challenges in such scenarios…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-29 Naichen Shi , Raed Al Kontar , Salar Fattahi

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

Federated learning has attracted significant attention as a privacy-preserving framework for training personalised models on multi-source heterogeneous data. However, most existing approaches are unable to handle scenarios where subgroup…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-14 Changxin Yang , Zhongyi Zhu , Heng Lian

Feature selection aims to identify the optimal feature subset for enhancing downstream models. Effective feature selection can remove redundant features, save computational resources, accelerate the model learning process, and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework aiming at protecting data privacy. Data heterogeneity is one of the core challenges in federated learning, which could severely degrade the convergence rate and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-27 Feifei Wang , Huiyun Tang , Yang Li

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 (FS) is assumed to improve predictive performance and identify meaningful features in high-dimensional datasets. Surprisingly, small random subsets of features (0.02-1%) match or outperform the predictive performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Bhavesh Neekhra , Debayan Gupta , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Feature selection, an effective technique for dimensionality reduction, plays an important role in many machine learning systems. Supervised knowledge can significantly improve the performance. However, faced with the rapid growth of newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zheng Wang , Qiao Wang , Tingzhang Zhao , Xiaojun Ye

Feature selection is a core area of data mining with a recent innovation of graph-driven unsupervised feature selection for linked data. In this setting we have a dataset $\mathbf{Y}$ consisting of $n$ instances each with $m$ features and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zilong Bai , Hoa Nguyen , Ian Davidson

In this paper we introduce Feature Gradients, a gradient-based search algorithm for feature selection. Our approach extends a recent result on the estimation of learnability in the sublinear data regime by showing that the calculation can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-29 Rishit Sheth , Nicolo Fusi

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 selection can efficiently identify the most informative features with respect to the target feature used in training. However, state-of-the-art vector-based methods are unable to encapsulate the relationships between feature samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Lixin Cui , Lu Bai , Zhihong Zhang , Yue Wang , Edwin R. Hancock

Integrative learning of multiple datasets has the potential to mitigate the challenge of small $n$ and large $p$ that is often encountered in analysis of big biomedical data such as genomics data. Detection of weak yet important signals can…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-04 Changgee Chang , Zongyu Dai , Jihwan Oh , Qi Long

Feature selection is a process of choosing a subset of relevant features so that the quality of prediction models can be improved. An extensive body of work exists on information-theoretic feature selection, based on maximizing Mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Jilin Wu , Soumyajit Gupta , Chandrajit Bajaj

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

Feature selection, which searches for the most representative features in observed data, is critical for health data analysis. Unlike feature extraction, such as PCA and autoencoder based methods, feature selection preserves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shiyu Liu , Mehul Motani

Along with the flourish of the information age, massive amounts of data are generated day by day. Due to the large-scale and high-dimensional characteristics of these data, it is often difficult to achieve better decision-making in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Peican Zhu , Xin Hou , Keke Tang , Zhen Wang , Feiping Nie

A key obstacle in automated analytics and meta-learning is the inability to recognize when different datasets contain measurements of the same variable. Because provided attribute labels are often uninformative in practice, this task may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jonas Mueller , Alex Smola