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We propose a novel reinforcement learning-based approach for adaptive and iterative feature selection. Given a masked vector of input features, a reinforcement learning agent iteratively selects certain features to be unmasked, and uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Uri Shaham , Tom Zahavy , Cesar Caraballo , Shiwani Mahajan , Daisy Massey , Harlan Krumholz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) face interpretability challenges due to their opaque internal representations. While Feature Map Convergence Evaluation (FMCE) quantifies module-level convergence via Feature Map Convergence Scores (FMCS), it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhibo Zhu , Renyu Huang , Lei He

Although multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) is an effective technology for reducing dimensionality in machine learning, existing methods cannot directly deal with incomplete multi-view data where some samples are missing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Tianrui Li , Fengmao Lv

Feature selection is a combinatorial optimization problem that is NP-hard. Conventional approaches often employ heuristic or greedy strategies, which are prone to premature convergence and may fail to capture subtle yet informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yusi Fan , Tian Wang , Zhiying Yan , Chang Liu , Qiong Zhou , Qi Lu , Zhehao Guo , Ziqi Deng , Wenyu Zhu , Ruochi Zhang , Fengfeng Zhou

Anomaly detection is important for industrial automation and part quality assurance, and while humans can easily detect anomalies in components given a few examples, designing a generic automated system that can perform at human or above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Anthony Garland , Kevin Potter , Matt Smith

Real-time vision-based system of fault detection (RVBS-FD) for freight trains is an essential part of ensuring railway transportation safety. Most existing vision-based methods still have high computational costs based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Guodong Sun , Yang Zhou , Huilin Pan , Bo Wu , Ye Hu , Yang Zhang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) technologies have emerged in many domains to jointly learn the architectures and weights of the neural network. However, most existing NAS works claim they are task-specific and focus only on optimizing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sen Yang , Wankou Yang , Zhen Cui

Anomalous pattern detection aims to identify instances where deviation from normalcy is evident, and is widely applicable across domains. Multiple anomalous detection techniques have been proposed in the state of the art. However, there is…

Federated Learning (FL) often struggles with data heterogeneity due to the naturally uneven distribution of user data across devices. Federated Neural Architecture Search (NAS) enables collaborative search for optimal model architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Xinyuan Huang , Jiechao Gao

In reinforcement learning, the state of the real world is often represented by feature vectors. However, not all of the features may be pertinent for solving the current task. We propose Feature Selection Explore and Exploit (FS-EE), an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Emma Brunskill

Class imbalance is a common issue in many domain applications of learning algorithms. Oftentimes, in the same domains it is much more relevant to correctly classify and profile minority class observations. This need can be addressed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-23 Michela C. Massi , Francesca Ieva , Francesca Gasperoni , Anna Maria Paganoni

Automated Feature Engineering (AFE) refers to automatically generate and select optimal feature sets for downstream tasks, which has achieved great success in real-world applications. Current AFE methods mainly focus on improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kafeng Wang , Pengyang Wang , Chengzhong xu

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

In this paper, we present a new method for few-sample supervised feature selection (FS). Our method first learns the manifold of the feature space of each class using kernels capturing multi-feature associations. Then, based on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 David Cohen , Tal Shnitzer , Yuval Kluger , Ronen Talmon

Matrix factorization (MF) has been widely used to discover the low-rank structure and to predict the missing entries of data matrix. In many real-world learning systems, the data matrix can be very high-dimensional but sparse. This poses an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Xiangnan He , Jinhui Tang , Xiaoyu Du , Richang Hong , Tongwei Ren , Tat-Seng Chua

Feature Selection is a crucial procedure in Data Science tasks such as Classification, since it identifies the relevant variables, making thus the classification procedures more interpretable, cheaper in terms of measurement and more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rafael Blanquero , Emilio Carrizosa , Pepa Ramírez-Cobo

Multi-task learning (MTL) jointly learns a set of tasks by sharing parameters among tasks. It is a promising approach for reducing storage costs while improving task accuracy for many computer vision tasks. The effective adoption of MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan

We propose Predictive Permutation Feature Selection (PPFS), a novel wrapper-based feature selection method based on the concept of Markov Blanket (MB). Unlike previous MB methods, PPFS is a universal feature selection technique as it can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Atif Hassan , Jiaul H. Paik , Swanand Khare , Syed Asif Hassan

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

Deep learning methods have been successful in solving tasks in machine learning and have made breakthroughs in many sectors owing to their ability to automatically extract features from unstructured data. However, their performance relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Kashu Yamazaki , Hieu Hoang , Minh-Triet Tran , Ngan Le