AFS-BM: Enhancing Model Performance through Adaptive Feature Selection with Binary Masking

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Autores principales: Turali, Mehmet Y., Lorasdagi, Mehmet E., Koc, Ali T., Kozat, Suleyman S.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Turali, Mehmet Y.
Lorasdagi, Mehmet E.
Koc, Ali T.
Kozat, Suleyman S.
author_facet Turali, Mehmet Y.
Lorasdagi, Mehmet E.
Koc, Ali T.
Kozat, Suleyman S.
contents We study the problem of feature selection in general machine learning (ML) context, which is one of the most critical subjects in the field. Although, there exist many feature selection methods, however, these methods face challenges such as scalability, managing high-dimensional data, dealing with correlated features, adapting to variable feature importance, and integrating domain knowledge. To this end, we introduce the "Adaptive Feature Selection with Binary Masking" (AFS-BM) which remedies these problems. AFS-BM achieves this by joint optimization for simultaneous feature selection and model training. In particular, we do the joint optimization and binary masking to continuously adapt the set of features and model parameters during the training process. This approach leads to significant improvements in model accuracy and a reduction in computational requirements. We provide an extensive set of experiments where we compare AFS-BM with the established feature selection methods using well-known datasets from real-life competitions. Our results show that AFS-BM makes significant improvement in terms of accuracy and requires significantly less computational complexity. This is due to AFS-BM's ability to dynamically adjust to the changing importance of features during the training process, which an important contribution to the field. We openly share our code for the replicability of our results and to facilitate further research.
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spellingShingle AFS-BM: Enhancing Model Performance through Adaptive Feature Selection with Binary Masking
Turali, Mehmet Y.
Lorasdagi, Mehmet E.
Koc, Ali T.
Kozat, Suleyman S.
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
We study the problem of feature selection in general machine learning (ML) context, which is one of the most critical subjects in the field. Although, there exist many feature selection methods, however, these methods face challenges such as scalability, managing high-dimensional data, dealing with correlated features, adapting to variable feature importance, and integrating domain knowledge. To this end, we introduce the "Adaptive Feature Selection with Binary Masking" (AFS-BM) which remedies these problems. AFS-BM achieves this by joint optimization for simultaneous feature selection and model training. In particular, we do the joint optimization and binary masking to continuously adapt the set of features and model parameters during the training process. This approach leads to significant improvements in model accuracy and a reduction in computational requirements. We provide an extensive set of experiments where we compare AFS-BM with the established feature selection methods using well-known datasets from real-life competitions. Our results show that AFS-BM makes significant improvement in terms of accuracy and requires significantly less computational complexity. This is due to AFS-BM's ability to dynamically adjust to the changing importance of features during the training process, which an important contribution to the field. We openly share our code for the replicability of our results and to facilitate further research.
title AFS-BM: Enhancing Model Performance through Adaptive Feature Selection with Binary Masking
topic Machine Learning
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11250