arXiv:2607. 24145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature selection aims to identify the most informative and relevant features for a given dataset, either in terms of capturing the underlying data structure and distribution better, or with respect to the performance on a downstream task.
arXiv:2511. 20851v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Feature selection remains difficult in modern high-dimensional settings, and established methods such as Boruta and Recursive Feature Elimination are either computationally costly or lack a statistically justified stopping criterion for their importance scores.
arXiv:2606. 31686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature rankings are widely used in supervised feature selection because they are simple, scalable and easy to interpret.
arXiv:2606. 01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern industrial recommender systems rely on thousands of heterogeneous features -- ranging from low-dimensional scalars (e.
arXiv:2608.12057v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Feature selection is one of the most important and fundamental tasks in data mining, tackled by a family of methods with an established set of eval...
arXiv:2508. 14268v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Feature selection and importance estimation in a model-agnostic setting is an ongoing challenge of significant interest.
arXiv:2608. 12057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature selection is one of the most important and fundamental tasks in data mining, tackled by a family of methods with an established set of evaluation techniques to measure the quality of a specific method.
arXiv:2608. 01586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, numerous open-source software libraries have been developed for computing sets of features from univariate time series.
arXiv:2604. 15107v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shapley values provide a flexible framework for attributing feature contributions to model predictions, but they are not naturally suited for feature selection: a feature may receive a positive attribution even when it is redundant given the remaining variables.
arXiv:2609.24126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box machine learning models increasingly deliver strong predictions, but extracting useful information from them, such as a set of important fe...
arXiv:2511.15371v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Assessing the importance of individual features in Machine Learning is critical to understand the model's decision-making process. While numerous m...
The paper introduces a unified framework called null importance to clarify different notions of feature relevance in interpretable machine learning. It defines null importance at the population level for various relevance concepts—marginal, conditional, predictive risk, functional invariance, and causal effects—and demonstrates how each answers distinct scientific questions. Through theoretical analysis, simulations, and case studies on fairness and genomic modeling, the authors show when these null notions coincide or diverge and how different importance methods target them.
arXiv:2606. 07068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Since 1990 many feature selection methods have been proposed across heterogeneous applications.