For supervised learning, feature selection algorithms attempt to maximise a given function of predictive accuracy. This function usually considers the ability of feature vectors t...
Feature selection for unsupervised tasks is particularly challenging, especially when dealing with text data. The increase in online documents and email communication creates a nee...
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lothian, Stewart Massie
In this paper a methodology for feature selection in unsupervised learning is proposed. It makes use of a multiobjective genetic algorithm where the minimization of the number of ...
Feature selection plays a fundamental role in many pattern
recognition problems. However, most efforts have been
focused on the supervised scenario, while unsupervised feature
s...
Bin Zhao, James Tin-Yau Kwok, Fei Wang, Changshui ...
We propose an approximate Bayesian approach for unsupervised feature selection and density estimation, where the importance of the features for clustering is used as the measure f...