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Due to the size and nature of intrusion detection datasets, intrusion detection systems (IDS) typically take high computational complexity to examine features of data and identify intrusive patterns. Data preprocessing techniques such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mubarak Albarka Umar , Chen Zhanfang , Yan Liu

Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) are increasingly dependent on a large number of feature fields for more precise recommendations. Effective feature selection methods are consequently becoming critical for further enhancing the accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pengyue Jia , Yejing Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Wanyu Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Feature selection (FS) is a fundamental challenge in machine learning, particularly for high-dimensional tabular data, where interpretability and computational efficiency are critical. Existing FS methods often cannot automatically detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Witold Wydmański , Marek Śmieja

In the social sciences, it is often necessary to debias studies and surveys before valid conclusions can be drawn. Debiasing algorithms enable the computational removal of bias using sample weights. However, an issue arises when only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tony Hauptmann , Stefan Kramer

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

Sure Independence Screening is a fast procedure for variable selection in ultra-high dimensional regression analysis. Unfortunately, its performance greatly deteriorates with increasing dependence among the predictors. To solve this issue,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-15 Yixin Wang , Stefan Van Aelst

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have recently emerged as powerful pretrained encoders for computational pathology, enabling transfer learning across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, systematic comparisons of these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Constance Boissin , Johan Vallon-Christersson , David A. Clifton , Mattias Rantalainen

Many feature subset selection (FSS) algorithms have been proposed, but not all of them are appropriate for a given feature selection problem. At the same time, so far there is rarely a good way to choose appropriate FSS algorithms for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Guangtao Wang , Qinbao Song , Heli Sun , Xueying Zhang , Baowen Xu , Yuming Zhou

The amount of data for machine learning (ML) applications is constantly growing. Not only the number of observations, especially the number of measured variables (features) increases with ongoing digitization. Selecting the most appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Konstantin Hopf , Sascha Reifenrath

Purpose: Medical foundation models (FMs) offer a path to build high-performance diagnostic systems. However, their application to prostate cancer (PCa) detection from micro-ultrasound ({\mu}US) remains untested in clinical settings. We…

In this paper, we present a general scheme for building reproducible and extensible datasets for website phishing detection. The aim is to (1) enable comparison of systems using different features, (2) overtake the short-lived nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abdelhakim Hannousse , Salima Yahiouche

Feature Selection (FS) is a key task in Machine Learning. It consists in selecting a number of relevant variables for the model construction or data analysis. We present the R package, FSinR, which implements a variety of widely known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 F. Aragón-Royón , A. Jiménez-Vílchez , A. Arauzo-Azofra , J. M. Benítez

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

Multi-center survival prediction can improve robustness and generalizability, yet privacy regulations and institutional governance often prevent pooling patient-level clinical and genomic data across institutions. In practice, deployment is…

We propose a filtering feature selection framework that considers subsets of features as paths in a graph, where a node is a feature and an edge indicates pairwise (customizable) relations among features, dealing with relevance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Alessandro Vinciarelli , Marco Cristani

Recommender systems (RS) have become essential in filtering information and personalizing content for users. RS techniques have traditionally relied on modeling interactions between users and items as well as the features of content using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Chengkai Huang , Hongtao Huang , Tong Yu , Kaige Xie , Junda Wu , Shuai Zhang , Julian Mcauley , Dietmar Jannach , Lina Yao

There have been several attempts to develop Feature Selection (FS) algorithms capable of identifying features that are relevant in a dataset. Although in certain applications the FS algorithms can be seen to be successful, they have similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Andrew Starkey , Uduak Idio Akpan , Omaimah AL Hosni , Yaseen Pullissery

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) is an important task in data engineering. However, most UFS methods construct models from a single perspective and often fail to simultaneously evaluate feature importance and preserve their inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jingjing Liu , Xiansen Ju , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

To reduce the communication overhead caused by parallel training of multiple clients, various federated learning (FL) techniques use random client sampling. Nonetheless, ensuring the efficacy of random sampling and determining the optimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Kirandeep Kaur , Sujit Gujar , Shweta Jain

Motivation: Biomarker discovery from high-dimensional data is a crucial problem with enormous applications in biology and medicine. It is also extremely challenging from a statistical viewpoint, but surprisingly few studies have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-09-17 Anne-Claire Haury , Pierre Gestraud , Jean-Philippe Vert