arXiv Machine Learning

i-IF-Learn: Iterative Feature Selection and Unsupervised Learning for High-Dimensional Complex Data

arXiv:2603. 24025v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised learning of high-dimensional data is challenging due to irrelevant or noisy features obscuring underlying structures.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Cluster LOCO: Feature Importance For Interpreting Clusters

arXiv:2606. 14592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is widely used for exploratory analysis and scientific discovery, driving insights from market segmentation to biological data analysis, but its outputs can be difficult to interpret, audit, and reproduce as modern datasets become increasingly large and complex.

By Claire M. He, Genevera I. Allen
arXiv AI
Sep 2

When Features Become Instances: Inverted Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection

The paper introduces Inverted Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection (ICLFS), a method that treats each feature as a sample by inverting the data matrix and applies a contrastive learning framework to learn consistent representations across masked positive views and a shuffled negative view. Feature saliency is derived from the magnitude of projector‑space embeddings, and a Laplacian‑Gated Ranking Correction step refines the ranking by reducing local redundancy. Experiments on 12 benchmark datasets show that ICLFS achieves the best clustering accuracy on 10 datasets compared to both classical and neural baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of feature‑wise contrastive consistency for unsupervised feature selection.

By Utsab Ghosh, Roshni Chakraborty
arXiv AI
3d ago

CellMSA: Context Modeling for Single-Cell Representation Learning

CellMSA introduces a novel single‑cell representation learning framework that leverages a multiple‑sequence‑alignment‑inspired context model. For each target cell, it retrieves relevant cells across batches and related cell types, summarizing cross‑cell patterns into a context‑dependent gene‑pair representation that is fed into a pair‑aware encoder. Pretraining on a massive human single‑cell corpus (≈109 million cells) and subsequent benchmarks demonstrate consistent performance gains over existing methods.

By Suyuan Zhao, Minghao Liu, Yizhen Luo, Zaiqing Nie
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Cross-Cluster Weighted Forests

arXiv:2105. 07610v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building trustworthy machine learning algorithms for biological applications requires adapting to data heterogeneity from different sources, batches, distributions, or studies.

By Maya Ramchandran, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Giovanni Parmigiani
arXiv AI
Sep 15

SeqMaestro: From nucleotide sequences to biological hypotheses through interpretable machine learning

arXiv:2609.14882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nucleotide sequence analysis is central to problems spanning regulatory genomics, evolutionary biology, and phenotype prediction. Classical bioinform...

By Evgeny S. Saveliev, Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Charlotte Capitanchik, Neelanjan Mukherjee, Kate Matlin, Ryan Sheridan, Srinivas Ramachandran, Jernej Ule, David L. Bentley, Mihaela van der Schaar
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Selective Inference for Deep Clustering in Latent Spaces

The paper introduces a selective inference framework tailored for deep clustering that uses a fixed pretrained encoder to map high‑dimensional data into a latent space before clustering. It addresses the complex selection bias arising from the nonlinear transformation and offers a computationally tractable method to perform valid statistical tests on cluster differences. Experiments on synthetic data show controlled Type I error and higher power compared to conservative baselines, while genomic case studies demonstrate the ability to uncover significant cluster differences while properly accounting for selection bias.

By Eina Mizui, Tomohiro Shiraishi, Shunichi Nishino, Ichiro Takeuchi