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Feature selection is a preprocessing step which plays a crucial role in the domain of machine learning and data mining. Feature selection methods have been shown to be effctive in removing redundant and irrelevant features, improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiongshi Deng , Min Li , Lei Wang , Qikang Wan

The challenges in feature selection, particularly in balancing model accuracy, interpretability, and computational efficiency, remain a critical issue in advancing machine learning methodologies. To address these complexities, this study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nachiket Kapure , Harsh Joshi , Parul Kumari , Rajeshwari Mistri , Manasi Mali

Feature selection is a dimensionality reduction technique that selects a subset of representative features from high dimensional data by eliminating irrelevant and redundant features. Recently, feature selection combined with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

Fine-tuning is widely applied in image classification tasks as a transfer learning approach. It re-uses the knowledge from a source task to learn and obtain a high performance in target tasks. Fine-tuning is able to alleviate the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Xuyang Shen , Jo Plested , Sabrina Caldwell , Yiran Zhong , Tom Gedeon

In many real-world machine learning problems, feature values are not readily available. To make predictions, some of the missing features have to be acquired, which can incur a cost in money, computational time, or human time, depending on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Kimmo Kärkkäinen , Mohammad Kachuee , Orpaz Goldstein , Majid Sarrafzadeh

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

The quality control of fetal sonographic (FS) images is essential for the correct biometric measurements and fetal anomaly diagnosis. However, quality control requires professional sonographers to perform and is often labor-intensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Hong Luo , Han Liu , Kejun Li , Bo Zhang

Data-driven functions for operation and management often require measurements collected through monitoring for model training and prediction. The number of data sources can be very large, which requires a significant communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Xiaoxuan Wang , Forough Shahab Samani , Rolf Stadler

Semi-supervised multi-label feature selection has recently been developed to solve the curse of dimensionality problem in high-dimensional multi-label data with certain samples missing labels. Although many efforts have been made, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Li Yang , Yanyong Huang , Dongjie Wang , Ke Li , Xiuwen Yi , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

We propose an adaptive node feature selection approach for graph neural networks (GNNs) that identifies and removes unnecessary features during training. The ability to measure how features contribute to model output is key for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ali Azizpour , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

This paper introduces a novel graph-based filter method for automatic feature selection (abbreviated as GB-AFS) for multi-class classification tasks. The method determines the minimum combination of features required to sustain prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 David Levin , Gonen Singer

Making deep convolutional neural networks more accurate typically comes at the cost of increased computational and memory resources. In this paper, we reduce this cost by exploiting the fact that the importance of features computed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Xitong Gao , Yiren Zhao , Łukasz Dudziak , Robert Mullins , Cheng-zhong Xu

Biological data including gene expression data are generally high-dimensional and require efficient, generalizable, and scalable machine-learning methods to discover their complex nonlinear patterns. The recent advances in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Dinesh Singh , Héctor Climente-González , Mathis Petrovich , Eiryo Kawakami , Makoto Yamada

Building compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with reliable performance is a critical but challenging task, especially when deploying them in real-world applications. As a common approach to reduce the size of CNNs, pruning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Hang Li , Chen Ma , Wei Xu , Xue Liu

Quality classification of wood boards is an essential task in the sawmill industry, which is still usually performed by human operators in small to median companies in developing countries. Machine learning algorithms have been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mateus Roder , Leandro Aparecido Passos , João Paulo Papa , André Luis Debiaso Rossi

This study presents an autonomous experimental machine learning protocol for high-frequency trading (HFT) stock price forecasting that involves a dual competitive feature importance mechanism and clustering via shallow neural network…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-30 Adamantios Ntakaris , Gbenga Ibikunle

Major complications arise from the recent increase in the amount of high-dimensional data, including high computational costs and memory requirements. Feature selection, which identifies the most relevant and informative attributes of a…

There have been several attempts to develop Feature Selection (FS) algorithms capable of identifying features that are relevant in a dataset. Although in certain applications the FS algorithms can be seen to be successful, they have similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Andrew Starkey , Uduak Idio Akpan , Omaimah AL Hosni , Yaseen Pullissery

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

Feature selection is an essential process in machine learning, especially when dealing with high-dimensional datasets. It helps reduce the complexity of machine learning models, improve performance, mitigate overfitting, and decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Egor Kraev , Baran Koseoglu , Luca Traverso , Mohammed Topiwalla