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Due to the fast-growing volume of text documents and reviews in recent years, current analyzing techniques are not competent enough to meet the users' needs. Using feature selection techniques not only support to understand data better but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Amir Javadpour , Samira Rezaei , Kuan-Ching Li , Guojun Wang

Reducing sensor requirements while keeping optimal control performance is crucial to many industrial control applications to achieve robust, low-cost, and computation-efficient controllers. However, existing feature selection solutions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jiawen Wei , Fangyuan Wang , Wanxin Zeng , Wenwei Lin , Ning Gui

We study the high-dimensional linear regression problem with categorical predictors that have many levels. We propose a new estimation approach, which performs model compression via two mechanisms by simultaneously encouraging (a)…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-30 Kayhan Behdin , Riade Benbaki , Peter Radchenko , Rahul Mazumder

Effective feature selection is essential for high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning. Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) aims to simultaneously cluster data and identify the most discriminative features. Most existing UFS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Feng Yu , MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder , Ying Su , Oscar Contreras Velasco

While conventional power system protection isolates faulty components only after a fault has occurred, fault prediction approaches try to detect faults before they can cause significant damage. Although initial studies have demonstrated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Georg Kordowich , Julian Oelhaf , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier , Matthias Kereit , Johann Jaeger

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

Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) investigate the attributes that influence individuals' choices when selecting among various options. To enhance the quality of the estimated choice models, researchers opt for Bayesian optimal designs that…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-01 Yicheng Mao , Roselinde Kessels , Tom van der Zanden

Adaptive sampling algorithms are modern and efficient methods that dynamically adjust the sample size throughout the optimization process. However, they may encounter difficulties in risk-averse settings, particularly due to the challenge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Sandra Pieraccini , Tommaso Vanzan

The application of machine learning to image and video data often yields a high dimensional feature space. Effective feature selection techniques identify a discriminant feature subspace that lowers computational and modeling costs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yijing Yang , Wei Wang , Hongyu Fu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Feature selection plays a crucial role in improving predictive accuracy by identifying relevant features while filtering out irrelevant ones. This study investigates the importance of effective feature selection in enhancing the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Younes Ghazagh Jahed , Seyyed Ali Sadat Tavana

With the popularity of Machine Learning (ML) solutions, algorithms and data have been released faster than the capacity of processing them. In this context, the problem of Algorithm Recommendation (AR) is receiving a significant deal of…

Modern high-dimensional methods often adopt the "bet on sparsity" principle, while in supervised multivariate learning statisticians may face "dense" problems with a large number of nonzero coefficients. This paper proposes a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Yiyuan She , Jiahui Shen , Chao Zhang

In many scientific settings there is a need for adaptive experimental design to guide the process of identifying regions of the search space that contain as many true positives as possible subject to a low rate of false discoveries (i.e.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in high-dimensional variable selection requires balancing rigorous error control with statistical power. Existing methods with provable guarantees are often overly conservative, creating a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-06 Arnau Vilella , Jasin Machkour , Michael Muma , Daniel P. Palomar

Feature selection that selects an informative subset of variables from data not only enhances the model interpretability and performance but also alleviates the resource demands. Recently, there has been growing attention on feature…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Zahra Atashgahi , Xuhao Zhang , Neil Kichler , Shiwei Liu , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Raymond Veldhuis , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

The false discovery rate (FDR)---the expected fraction of spurious discoveries among all the discoveries---provides a popular statistical assessment of the reproducibility of scientific studies in various disciplines. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-10 Weijie Su , Junyang Qian , Linxi Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that enables collaborative model training while avoiding explicit data sharing. The inherent privacy-preserving property of FL algorithms makes them especially attractive…

Feature selection removes redundant features to enhanc performance and computational efficiency in downstream tasks. Existing works often struggle to capture complex feature interactions and adapt to diverse scenarios. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rui Liu , Rui Xie , Zijun Yao , Yanjie Fu , Dongjie Wang

Submodular maximization subject to matroid constraints is a central problem with many applications in machine learning. As algorithms are increasingly used in decision-making over datapoints with sensitive attributes such as gender or race,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sepideh Mahabadi , Sherry Sarkar , Jakub Tarnawski

In recent years, feature selection has become a challenging problem in several machine learning fields, such as classification problems. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a well-known technique applied in classification tasks. Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda