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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

We propose a filtering feature selection framework that considers subsets of features as paths in a graph, where a node is a feature and an edge indicates pairwise (customizable) relations among features, dealing with relevance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Alessandro Vinciarelli , Marco Cristani

This paper presents a novel meta learning framework for feature selection (FS) based on fuzzy similarity. The proposed method aims to recommend the best FS method from four candidate FS methods for any given dataset. This is achieved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixiao Shen , Xin Chen , Jonathan M. Garibaldi

Image feature classification is a challenging problem in many computer vision applications, specifically, in the fields of remote sensing, image analysis and pattern recognition. In this paper, a novel Self Organizing Map, termed improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-09 M. Abdelsamea , Marghny H. Mohamed , Mohamed Bamatraf

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

Classic feature selection techniques remove those features that are either irrelevant or redundant, achieving a subset of relevant features that help to provide a better knowledge extraction. This allows the creation of compact models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Brais Cancela , Verónica Bolón-Canedo , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , João Gama

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a brain-inspired neural model that is very promising for unsupervised learning, especially in embedded applications. However, it is unable to learn efficient prototypes when dealing with complex datasets. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Lyes Khacef , Laurent Rodriguez , Benoit Miramond

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

Making a simple model by choosing a limited number of features with the purpose of reducing the computational complexity of the algorithms involved in classification is one of the main issues in machine learning and data mining. The aim of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Shahin Pourbahrami

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

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

Fine-grained image classification has emerged as a significant challenge because objects in such images have small inter-class visual differences but with large variations in pose, lighting, and viewpoints, etc. Most existing work focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

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

Dynamic feature selection (DFS) is a machine learning framework in which features are acquired sequentially for individual samples under budget constraints. The exponential growth in the number of possible feature acquisition paths forces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

Feature selection has drawn much attention over the last decades in machine learning because it can reduce data dimensionality while maintaining the original physical meaning of features, which enables better interpretability than feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yiwen Liao , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

Plant species exhibit significant intra-class variation and minimal inter-class variation. To enhance classification accuracy, it is essential to reduce intra-class variation while maximizing inter-class variation. This paper addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Aisha Zulfiqar , Ebroul Izquiedro

Uplift modeling is a causal learning technique that estimates subgroup-level treatment effects. It is commonly used in industry and elsewhere for tasks such as targeting ads. In a typical setting, uplift models can take thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhenyu Zhao , Yumin Zhang , Totte Harinen , Mike Yung

As an effective data preprocessing step, feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many machine learning tasks. The proliferation of high di-mension and huge volume big data, however, has brought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ning Gui , Danni Ge , Ziyin Hu

High-dimensional data in many machine learning applications leads to computational and analytical complexities. Feature selection provides an effective way for solving these problems by removing irrelevant and redundant features, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ali Mirzaei , Vahid Pourahmadi , Mehran Soltani , Hamid Sheikhzadeh

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