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Choosing a meaningful subset of features from high-dimensional observations in unsupervised settings can greatly enhance the accuracy of downstream analysis, such as clustering or dimensionality reduction, and provide valuable insights into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Daniel Segal , Ofir Lindenbaum , Ariel Jaffe

Unsupervised learning of high-dimensional data is challenging due to irrelevant or noisy features obscuring underlying structures. It's common that only a few features, called the influential features, meaningfully define the clusters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chen Ma , Wanjie Wang , Shuhao Fan

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

High-quality labeled datasets are essential for deep learning. Traditional manual annotation methods are not only costly and inefficient but also pose challenges in specialized domains where expert knowledge is needed. Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Zhaocong liu , Fa Zhang , Lin Cheng , Huanxi Deng , Xiaoyan Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Chichun Zhou

Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

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

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has recently emerged as an effective dimensionality reduction method for unlabeled multi-view data. However, most existing methods mainly use first-order similarity graphs to preserve local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lin Xu , Ke Li , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li , Yanyong Huang

Unsupervised feature selection is an important method to reduce dimensions of high dimensional data without labels, which is benefit to avoid ``curse of dimensionality'' and improve the performance of subsequent machine learning tasks, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Fuxu Cai , Tianrui Li , Fengmao Lv

Unsupervised feature selection has been always attracting research attention in the communities of machine learning and data mining for decades. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised feature selection method seeking a feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Sen Wang , Feiping Nie , Xiaojun Chang , Lina Yao , Xue Li , Quan Z. Sheng

We study the problem of feature selection in general machine learning (ML) context, which is one of the most critical subjects in the field. Although, there exist many feature selection methods, however, these methods face challenges such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mehmet Y. Turali , Mehmet E. Lorasdagi , Ali T. Koc , Suleyman S. Kozat

Pseudo-Labeling is a simple and effective approach to semi-supervised learning. It requires criteria that guide the selection of pseudo-labeled data. The latter have been shown to crucially affect pseudo-labeling's generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julian Rodemann

Molecular data from tumor profiles is high dimensional. Tumor profiles can be characterized by tens of thousands of gene expression features. Due to the size of the gene expression feature set machine learning methods are exposed to noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Martin Palazzo , Pierre Beauseroy , Patricio Yankilevich

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has been demonstrated as an effective technique to reduce the dimensionality of multi-view unlabeled data. The existing methods assume that all of views are complete. However, multi-view data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Yuxin Cai , Xiuwen Yi , Dongjie Wang , Fengmao Lv , Tianrui Li

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 represents a measure to reduce the complexity of high-dimensional datasets and gain insights into the systematic variation in the data. This aspect is of specific importance in domains that rely on model interpretability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Anna Jenul , Stefan Schrunner , Jürgen Pilz , Oliver Tomic

In practical domains, high-dimensional data are usually associated with diverse semantic labels, whereas traditional feature selection methods are designed for single-label data. Moreover, existing multi-label methods encounter two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yan Zhong , Xingyu Wu , Xinping Zhao , Li Zhang , Xinyuan Song , Lei Shi , Bingbing Jiang

Dataset bias is a critical challenge in machine learning since it often leads to a negative impact on a model due to the unintended decision rules captured by spurious correlations. Although existing works often handle this issue based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Seonguk Seo , Joon-Young Lee , Bohyung Han

The recent research in semi-supervised learning (SSL) is mostly dominated by consistency regularization based methods which achieve strong performance. However, they heavily rely on domain-specific data augmentations, which are not easy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Kevin Duarte , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

To learn target discriminative representations, using pseudo-labels is a simple yet effective approach for unsupervised domain adaptation. However, the existence of false pseudo-labels, which may have a detrimental influence on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jaehoon Choi , Minki Jeong , Taekyung Kim , Changick Kim

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