Recent advances in feature selection and its applications

Y Li, T Li, H Liu - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2017 - Springer
Feature selection is one of the key problems for machine learning and data mining. In this
review paper, a brief historical background of the field is given, followed by a selection of …

An improved non-parallel universum support vector machine and its safe sample screening rule

J Zhao, Y Xu, H Fujita - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel non-parallel hyperplane Universum support vector machine (U-NHSVM) is
proposed in this paper. Universum data with ensconced prior knowledge are exploited by a …

The biglasso package: A memory-and computation-efficient solver for lasso model fitting with big data in r

Y Zeng, P Breheny - arxiv preprint arxiv:1701.05936, 2017 - arxiv.org
Penalized regression models such as the lasso have been extensively applied to analyzing
high-dimensional data sets. However, due to memory limitations, existing R packages like …

A Safe Feature Elimination Rule for -Regularized Logistic Regression

X Pan, Y Xu - Ieee transactions on pattern analysis and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The-regularized logistic regression (L1-LR) is popular for classification problems. To
accelerate its training speed for high-dimensional data, techniques named safe screening …

A safe double screening strategy for elastic net support vector machine

H Wang, Y Xu - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Elastic net support vector machine (ENSVM) is an effective and popular classification
technique. It has been widely used in many practical applications. However, solving large …

Simultaneous safe screening of features and samples in doubly sparse modeling

A Shibagaki, M Karasuyama… - International …, 2016 - proceedings.mlr.press
The problem of learning a sparse model is conceptually interpreted as the process of
identifying active features/samples and then optimizing the model over them. Recently …

Scaling up sparse support vector machines by simultaneous feature and sample reduction

B Hong, W Zhang, W Liu, J Ye, D Cai, X He… - Journal of Machine …, 2019 - jmlr.org
Sparse support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classification technique that can
simultaneously learn a small set of the most interpretable features and identify the support …

Safe pattern pruning: An efficient approach for predictive pattern mining

K Nakagawa, S Suzumura, M Karasuyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we study predictive pattern mining problems where the goal is to construct a
predictive model based on a subset of predictive patterns in the database. Our main …

Sparse elastic net multi-label rank support vector machine with pinball loss and its applications

H Wang, Y Xu - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Multi-label rank support vector machine (RankSVM) is an effective technique to deal with
multi-label classification problems, which has been widely used in various fields. However, it …

Feature screening strategy for non-convex sparse logistic regression with log sum penalty

M Yuan, Y Xu - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
L 1 logistic regression is an efficient classification algorithm. Leveraging on the convexity of
the model and the sparsity of L 1 norm, techniques named safe screening rules can help …