Optimal Data Reduction under Information-Theoretic Criteria

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Autores principales: He, Taotao, Luo, Jun, Zhao, Junkai
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author He, Taotao
Luo, Jun
Zhao, Junkai
author_facet He, Taotao
Luo, Jun
Zhao, Junkai
contents Selecting an optimal subset of features or instances under an information theoretic criterion has become an effective preprocessing strategy for reducing data complexity while preserving essential information. This study investigates two representative problems within this paradigm: feature selection based on the maximum relevance minimum redundancy criterion, and instance selection grounded in the Kullback Leibler divergence. To address the intrinsic nonconvexities of these problems, we develop polyhedral relaxations that yield exact mixed integer linear programming formulations, thereby enabling globally optimal data reduction. By leveraging modern optimization techniques, we further design efficient algorithmic implementations capable of solving practically sized instances. Extensive numerical experiments on both real world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our method efficiently solves data reduction problems to global optimality, significantly outperforming existing benchmark approaches.
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spellingShingle Optimal Data Reduction under Information-Theoretic Criteria
He, Taotao
Luo, Jun
Zhao, Junkai
Optimization and Control
Selecting an optimal subset of features or instances under an information theoretic criterion has become an effective preprocessing strategy for reducing data complexity while preserving essential information. This study investigates two representative problems within this paradigm: feature selection based on the maximum relevance minimum redundancy criterion, and instance selection grounded in the Kullback Leibler divergence. To address the intrinsic nonconvexities of these problems, we develop polyhedral relaxations that yield exact mixed integer linear programming formulations, thereby enabling globally optimal data reduction. By leveraging modern optimization techniques, we further design efficient algorithmic implementations capable of solving practically sized instances. Extensive numerical experiments on both real world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our method efficiently solves data reduction problems to global optimality, significantly outperforming existing benchmark approaches.
title Optimal Data Reduction under Information-Theoretic Criteria
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16123