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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

There exist many high-dimensional data in real-world applications such as biology, computer vision, and social networks. Feature selection approaches are devised to confront with high-dimensional data challenges with the aim of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

Feature selection is an important process in machine learning and knowledge discovery. By selecting the most informative features and eliminating irrelevant ones, the performance of learning algorithms can be improved and the extraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chunxu Cao , Qiang Zhang

Unsupervised feature selection aims to identify a compact subset of features that captures the intrinsic structure of data without supervised label. Most existing studies evaluate the performance of methods using the single-label dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gyu-Il Kim , Dae-Won Kim , Jaesung Lee

The need for labeled data is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to deploying deep learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. The current generation of learning algorithms requires a large volume of data labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aaron Reite , Scott Kangas , Zackery Steck , Steven Goley , Jonathan Von Stroh , Steven Forsyth

I consider unsupervised extensions of the fast stepwise linear regression algorithm \cite{efroymson1960multiple}. These extensions allow one to efficiently identify highly-representative feature variable subsets within a given set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Jonathan Landy

Feature selection is essential for high-dimensional biomedical data, enabling stronger predictive performance, reduced computational cost, and improved interpretability in precision medicine applications. Existing approaches face notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xiaoyan Sun , Qingyu Meng , Yalu Wen

Unlike unsupervised approaches such as autoencoders that learn to reconstruct their inputs, this paper introduces an alternative approach to unsupervised feature learning called divergent discriminative feature accumulation (DDFA) that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Paul A. Szerlip , Gregory Morse , Justin K. Pugh , Kenneth O. Stanley

Feature selection is an important pre-processing step for many pattern classification tasks. Traditionally, feature selection methods are designed to obtain a feature subset that can lead to high classification accuracy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-03 Rui Wang , Ke Tang

An algorithm to improve performance parameter for unsupervised decision forest clustering and density estimation is presented. Specifically, a dual assignment parameter is introduced as a density estimator by combining Random Forest and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Hayder Albehadili , Naz Islam

Binary change detection in bi-temporal co-registered hyperspectral images is a challenging task due to a large number of spectral bands present in the data. Researchers, therefore, try to handle it by reducing dimensions. The proposed work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Debasrita Chakraborty , Ashish Ghosh

Unsupervised image semantic segmentation(UISS) aims to match low-level visual features with semantic-level representations without outer supervision. In this paper, we address the critical properties from the view of feature alignments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Daoan Zhang , Chenming Li , Haoquan Li , Wenjian Huang , Lingyun Huang , Jianguo Zhang

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

Outlying observations can be challenging to handle and adversely affect subsequent analyses, especially in data with increasing dimensional complexity. Although outliers are not always undesired anomalies in the data and may possess…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-18 Anthony-Alexander Christidis , Gabriela Cohen-Freue

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

In this paper, we focus on the unsupervised multi-view feature selection which tries to handle high dimensional data in the field of multi-view learning. Although some graph-based methods have achieved satisfactory performance, they ignore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Qi Wang , Xu Jiang , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

Analysis of high dimensional noisy data is of essence across a variety of research fields. Feature selection techniques are designed to find the relevant feature subset that can facilitate classification or pattern detection. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Bo Wang , Anna Goldenberg

Unsupervised learning has always been appealing to machine learning researchers and practitioners, allowing them to avoid an expensive and complicated process of labeling the data. However, unsupervised learning of complex data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Medical image analysis using supervised deep learning methods remains problematic because of the reliance of deep learning methods on large amounts of labelled training data. Although medical imaging data repositories continue to expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

Unsupervised representation learning approaches aim to learn discriminative feature representations from unlabeled data, without the requirement of annotating every sample. Enabling unsupervised representation learning is extremely crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Qianwen Meng , Hangwei Qian , Yong Liu , Yonghui Xu , Zhiqi Shen , Lizhen Cui