Causality-based feature selection: Methods and evaluations

K Yu, X Guo, L Liu, J Li, H Wang, Z Ling… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Feature selection is a crucial preprocessing step in data analytics and machine learning.
Classical feature selection algorithms select features based on the correlations between …

On distributed computing continuum systems

S Dustdar, VC Pujol, PK Donta - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents our vision on the need of develo** new managing technologies to
harness distributed “computing continuum” systems. These systems are concurrently …

BAMB: A balanced Markov blanket discovery approach to feature selection

Z Ling, K Yu, H Wang, L Liu, W Ding, X Wu - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The discovery of Markov blanket (MB) for feature selection has attracted much attention in
recent years, since the MB of the class attribute is the optimal feature subset for feature …

Learning causal representations for robust domain adaptation

S Yang, K Yu, F Cao, L Liu, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we investigate a challenging problem, namely, robust domain adaptation,
where data from only a single well-labeled source domain are available in the training …

Local-to-global Bayesian network structure learning

T Gao, K Fadnis, M Campbell - International Conference on …, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
We introduce a new local-to-global structure learning algorithm, called graph growing
structure learning (GGSL), to learn Bayesian network (BN) structures. GGSL starts at a …

Nonlinear learning method for local causal structures

X Wu, Y Zhong, Z Ling, J Yang, L Li, W Sheng… - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of causal learning techniques, aimed at
extracting the abundant causal relationships embedded within observational data. In many …

Practical Markov boundary learning without strong assumptions

X Wu, B Jiang, T Wu, H Chen - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Theoretically, the Markov boundary (MB) is the optimal solution for feature selection.
However, existing MB learning algorithms often fail to identify some critical features in real …

[HTML][HTML] Learning Bayesian network structures using weakest mutual-information-first strategy

X Qi, X Fan, Y Gao, Y Liu - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2019 - Elsevier
In Bayesian network structure learning, the quality of the directed graph learned by the
constraint-based approaches can be greatly affected by the order of choosing variable pairs …

Exact learning augmented naive bayes classifier

S Sugahara, M Ueno - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Earlier studies have shown that classification accuracies of Bayesian networks (BNs)
obtained by maximizing the conditional log likelihood (CLL) of a class variable, given the …

Improving the performance and explainability of knowledge tracing via Markov blanket

B Jiang, Y Wei, T Zhang, W Zhang - Information Processing & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge tracing predicts student knowledge acquisition states during learning.
Traditional knowledge tracing methods suffer from poor prediction performance; however …