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.
By Muhammad Rajabinasab, Arthur Zimek
arXiv:2512. 13003v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for determining when a supervised model encounters inputs that differ meaningfully from its training distribution.
By Min Lu, Hemant Ishwaran
arXiv:2604. 01506v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-tailed classification, where a small number of frequent classes dominate many rare ones, remains challenging because models systematically favor frequent classes at inference time.
By Zhanliang Wang, Hongzhuo Chen, Quan Minh Nguyen, Mian Umair Ahsan, Kai Wang
arXiv:2608. 15725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive models in clinical and regulated settings must be accurate and fully auditable.
By Srikumar Krishnamoorthy
arXiv:2607. 01417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conditional inference trees (CIT) and conditional inference forests (CIF) reduce split-selection bias by testing features before choosing split thresholds, but repeated permutation tests and threshold searches can make these methods computationally expensive.
By Robert Milletich, Justin Downes, Steve Goley, Newel Hirst
arXiv:2303. 08777v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cross-validation is one of the most widely used tools for risk estimation and model selection in statistics and machine learning, yet its theoretical properties when embedded in a learning procedure remain insufficiently understood.
By Diego Marcondes, Cl\'audia Peixoto
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.
By Chenghui Zheng, Garvesh Raskutti
arXiv:2606. 01566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small-to-medium scientific datasets place machine learning pipelines under two compounding pressures.
By Amanda S Barnard
arXiv:2606. 18933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active feature acquisition (AFA) sequentially selects which features to observe to reach a classification or ranking decision.
By Binyamin Perets, Natalie Mendelson, Shiran Vainberg, Yehuda Chowers, Shai Shen-Orr, Shie Mannor
arXiv:2608. 01502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential subset search -- forward selection with floating backtracking and its descendants -- remains the quality reference in feature selection, but every member of the family sweeps the full pool of remaining candidate features at each step, which excludes it from very-high-dimensional problems; there, only individual-feature ranking remains practical, and it models feature interplay weakly or not at all.
By Petr Somol, Ji\v{r}\'{\i} Grim
arXiv:2608. 14866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: Small-sample molecular classification requires feature selectors that identify predictive, stable, and nonredundant subsets for binary and multiclass outcomes.
By Zardad Khan, Amjad Ali, Naz Gul, Sheema Gul, Saeed Aldahmani
arXiv:2511. 22823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a practical alternative to fully supervised learning when complete and accurate labels are costly or infeasible to acquire.
By Miao Zhang, Junpeng Li, Changchun Hua, Yana Yang