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Main Authors: Lv, Jianming, Xia, Sijun, Liang, Depin, Chen, Wei
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05954
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author Lv, Jianming
Xia, Sijun
Liang, Depin
Chen, Wei
author_facet Lv, Jianming
Xia, Sijun
Liang, Depin
Chen, Wei
contents Traditional model-free feature selection methods treat each feature independently while disregarding the interrelationships among features, which leads to relatively poor performance compared with the model-aware methods. To address this challenge, we propose an efficient model-free feature selection framework via elastic expansion and compression of the features, namely EasyFS, to achieve better performance than state-of-the-art model-aware methods while sharing the characters of efficiency and flexibility with the existing model-free methods. In particular, EasyFS expands the feature space by using the random non-linear projection network to achieve the non-linear combinations of the original features, so as to model the interrelationships among the features and discover most correlated features. Meanwhile, a novel redundancy measurement based on the change of coding rate is proposed for efficient filtering of redundant features. Comprehensive experiments on 21 different datasets show that EasyFS outperforms state-of-the art methods up to 10.9\% in the regression tasks and 5.7\% in the classification tasks while saving more than 94\% of the time.
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spellingShingle EasyFS: an Efficient Model-free Feature Selection Framework via Elastic Transformation of Features
Lv, Jianming
Xia, Sijun
Liang, Depin
Chen, Wei
Machine Learning
Traditional model-free feature selection methods treat each feature independently while disregarding the interrelationships among features, which leads to relatively poor performance compared with the model-aware methods. To address this challenge, we propose an efficient model-free feature selection framework via elastic expansion and compression of the features, namely EasyFS, to achieve better performance than state-of-the-art model-aware methods while sharing the characters of efficiency and flexibility with the existing model-free methods. In particular, EasyFS expands the feature space by using the random non-linear projection network to achieve the non-linear combinations of the original features, so as to model the interrelationships among the features and discover most correlated features. Meanwhile, a novel redundancy measurement based on the change of coding rate is proposed for efficient filtering of redundant features. Comprehensive experiments on 21 different datasets show that EasyFS outperforms state-of-the art methods up to 10.9\% in the regression tasks and 5.7\% in the classification tasks while saving more than 94\% of the time.
title EasyFS: an Efficient Model-free Feature Selection Framework via Elastic Transformation of Features
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05954