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Subtype Discovery consists in finding interpretable and consistent sub-parts of a dataset, which are also relevant to a certain supervised task. From a mathematical point of view, this can be defined as a clustering task driven by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-06 Robin Louiset , Pietro Gori , Benoit Dufumier , Josselin Houenou , Antoine Grigis , Edouard Duchesnay

Unsupervised outlier detection is attractive because it eliminates the need for labeled data. Moreover, forming multi-model ensembles can improve detection robustness. However, composing an ensemble without labeled data is challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hong-Phuc Phan , Tuan-Anh Vu , Tung Kieu , Son Ha Xuan , Bin Yang , Christian S. Jensen

Feature selection is essential for effective visual recognition. We propose an efficient joint classifier learning and feature selection method that discovers sparse, compact representations of input features from a vast sea of candidates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Marius Leordeanu , Alexandra Radu , Shumeet Baluja , Rahul Sukthankar

Modern datasets often contain large subsets of correlated features and nuisance features, which are not or loosely related to the main underlying structures of the data. Nuisance features can be identified using the Laplacian score…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Uri Shaham , Ofir Lindenbaum , Jonathan Svirsky , Yuval Kluger

Supervised learning of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can require very large amounts of labeled data. Labeling thousands or millions of training examples can be extremely time consuming and costly. One direction towards addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Amir Ghaderi , Vassilis Athitsos

Concept Factorization (CF) and its variants may produce inaccurate representation and clustering results due to the sensitivity to noise, hard constraint on the reconstruction error and pre-obtained approximate similarities. To improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Zhao Zhang , Yan Zhang , Sheng Li , Guangcan Liu , Dan Zeng , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

Since the label collecting is prohibitive and time-consuming, unsupervised methods are preferred in applications such as fraud detection. Meanwhile, such applications usually require modeling the intrinsic clusters in high-dimensional data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Han Zhang , Wenhao Zheng , Charley Chen , Kevin Gao , Yao Hu , Ling Huang , Wei Xu

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 this paper, we investigate the research problem of unsupervised multi-view feature selection. Conventional solutions first simply combine multiple pre-constructed view-specific similarity structures into a collaborative similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Xiao Dong , Lei Zhu , Xuemeng Song , Jingjing Li , Zhiyong Cheng

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available. Most state-of-the-art methods fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Nicolas Pinon , Carole Lartizien

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…

This paper introduces the use of single layer and deep convolutional networks for remote sensing data analysis. Direct application to multi- and hyper-spectral imagery of supervised (shallow or deep) convolutional networks is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Adriana Romero , Carlo Gatta , Gustau Camps-Valls

Unsupervised skeleton based action recognition has achieved remarkable progress recently. Existing unsupervised learning methods suffer from severe overfitting problem, and thus small networks are used, significantly reducing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Chuankun Li , Shuai Li , Yanbo Gao , Ping Chen , Jian Li , Wanqing Li

Feature engineering plays an important role in the success of a machine learning model. Most of the effort in training a model goes into data preparation and choosing the right representation. In this paper, we propose a robust feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Namita Lokare , Jorge Silva , Ilknur Kaynar Kabul

Unsupervised learning based multi-scale exposure fusion (ULMEF) is efficient for fusing differently exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images into a higher quality LDR image for a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. Unlike supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chaobing Zheng , Shiqian Wu , Zhenggguo Li

Feature selection has emerged as a crucial technique in refining recommender systems. Recent advancements leveraging Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has drawn significant attention, particularly in two main categories: early feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Fan Hu , Gaofeng Lu , Jun Chen , Chaonan Guo , Yuekui Yang , Xirong Li

This paper concerns the critical decision process of extracting or selecting the features before applying a clustering algorithm. It is not obvious to evaluate the importance of the features since the most popular methods to do it are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jean-Sebastien Dessureault , Daniel Massicotte

Across various domains, the growing advocacy for open science and open-source machine learning has made an increasing number of models publicly available. These models allow practitioners to integrate them into their own contexts, reducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-31 Rui Duan

This work presents an unsupervised deep discriminant analysis for clustering. The method is based on deep neural networks and aims to minimize the intra-cluster discrepancy and maximize the inter-cluster discrepancy in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jinyu Cai , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

In this paper, we focus on the fairness issues regarding unsupervised outlier detection. Traditional algorithms, without a specific design for algorithmic fairness, could implicitly encode and propagate statistical bias in data and raise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hanyu Song , Peizhao Li , Hongfu Liu