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What is feature selection?

A procedure in machine learning to find a subset of features that produces a 'better' model for a given dataset.

What are the benefits of feature selection? (Select all that apply)

Reduce the storage requirement and training time (correct)

Increase the complexity of the model

Interpretability (correct)

Avoid overfitting and achieve better generalization ability (correct)

Feature selection aims to identify and remove redundant and irrelevant features.

True

Explain the difference between feature selection and feature extraction.

Feature selection aims to choose a subset of original features, while feature extraction creates new features from the existing ones. Signup and view all the answers

Feature selection can improve model readability but sacrifices interpretability.

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Which of the following learning techniques are generally considered to have a higher level of interpretability? (Select all that apply.)

Linear Regression Signup and view all the answers

In what scenarios is feature selection crucial?

Feature selection is vital when dealing with noisy data, numerous low-frequency features, multi-type features, a high ratio of features to samples, complex models, and inhomogeneous training and testing data. Signup and view all the answers

Categorize feature selection algorithms from the label perspective.

Supervised Signup and view all the answers

Categorize feature selection algorithms from the selection strategy perspective.

Wrapper Methods Signup and view all the answers

Supervised feature selection is primarily used for clustering problems.

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Unsupervised feature selection seeks alternative criteria to assess feature importance when labels are unavailable.

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Briefly describe a scenario where semi-supervised feature selection is used.

Semi-supervised feature selection is employed when there is a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data, allowing the model to leverage both data sets to find relevant features. Signup and view all the answers

Which two subset selection methods are commonly used in feature selection?

Backward Search Signup and view all the answers

Inclusion/removal criteria for subset selection methods are determined using cross-validation techniques.

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What are the two main steps involved in wrapper methods?

The two main steps in wrapper methods are searching for a subset of features and evaluating the selected features. Signup and view all the answers

Wrapper methods can be applied to any machine learning model.

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Wrapper methods often involve a greedy search strategy.

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Wrapper methods are computationally expensive.

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Filter methods are dependent on the learning algorithms.

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Filter methods are more efficient than wrapper methods.

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The chosen features from filter methods are always optimal for a specific learning algorithm.

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Which of the following is NOT a common metric used for evaluating feature quality in single feature evaluation?

Regression analysis Signup and view all the answers

What distinguishes embedded methods from wrapper and filter methods?

Embedded methods embed feature selection directly into the model learning process. Signup and view all the answers

Embedded methods are biased towards the underlying learning algorithm.

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What are the three traditional categories of approaches to feature selection?

The three categories are information theoretical based methods, statistical based methods, and sparse learning based methods. Signup and view all the answers

Information theoretical methods exploit heuristic filter criteria to measure feature importance.

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Which of the following is NOT a common feature selection metric used in information theoretical based methods?

F-score Signup and view all the answers

Information gain is a special case of the linear function in the general framework of information theoretical based methods.

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Mutual information feature selection considers feature relevance without redundancy.

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Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (MRMR) is a special case of the linear function in the general framework of information theoretical based methods.

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Conditional Infomax Feature Extraction aims to leverage the correlation between classes, ensuring that it's stronger than the overall correlation.

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Statistical based methods predominantly rely on filter feature selection techniques.

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Which statistical measure is employed by the T-Score feature selection method?

Mean Signup and view all the answers

A higher chi-square score indicates that the feature is more important.

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Statistical based methods often struggle to handle feature redundancy.

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What is feature sparsity?

Feature sparsity refers to the situation where many elements in the model's parameter vector or matrix are small or exactly zero. Signup and view all the answers

The L1 norm, sometimes called Lasso, is a convex and NP-hard function.

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The Lasso method is based on l-norm regularization on weight.

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Lasso can be viewed as a special case of a constrained optimization problem.

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The L2,1 norm is often used to achieve joint feature sparsity across multiple targets in multi-class classification and multi-variate regression.

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Sparse learning methods are generally considered computationally expensive.

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The curse of dimensionality refers to the challenges of dealing with high dimensional data, which can impact model performance and generalization.

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Study Notes

Feature Selection

A machine learning procedure to find a subset of features for a better model.
Aims to avoid overfitting and improve generalization.
Reduces storage requirements and training time.
Enhances interpretability.

Relevant vs. Redundant Features

Feature selection keeps relevant features for learning and removes redundant and irrelevant ones.
For example, in binary classification, feature f1 might be relevant, f2 redundant given f1, and f3 irrelevant.
Visualizations (graphs) show the distinction between relevant, redundant, and irrelevant features in binary classification tasks.

Feature Selection vs. Feature Extraction

Feature extraction creates new features from existing ones, while feature selection chooses a subset of existing ones.
Feature selection preserves the original features' meaning for better model interpretability.

Interpretability of Learning Algorithms

Feature selection enhances the accuracy and interpretability of many learning algorithms.

When Feature Selection is Important

Dealing with noisy data.
Handling many low-frequency features.
Using multi-type features.
Having too many features compared to samples.
Working with complex models.
Dealing with inhomogeneous training and test samples in real-world scenarios.

Types of Feature Selection

Label perspective: Supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised.
Selection strategy perspective: Wrapper methods, filter methods, embedded methods.

Supervised Feature Selection

Used for classification or regression problems.
Aims to find features that discriminate between classes or approximate target variables.
Uses labeled data during feature selection.
Involves a training set, feature information, selected features, supervised learning algorithm, and classifier.

Unsupervised Feature Selection

Used for clustering problems.
Label information is often expensive to collect (time-consuming).
Alternative criteria for feature relevance.
Uses an unsupervised learning algorithm.
Involves feature information, feature selection, selected features, and unsupervised learning algorithm.

Semi-Supervised Feature Selection

Uses both labeled and unlabeled data.
Exploits both labeled and unlabeled data to identify relevant features.
Involves partial label information, feature information, training set, feature information, testing set, selected features, semi-supervised learning algorithm, and classifier.

Feature Selection Techniques

Subset selection: Forward and Backward search, greedy approach.
Forward Search: Starts with no features and greedily adds the most relevant one until reaching the desired number.
Backward Search: Starts with all features and greedily removes the least relevant ones until the desired number is reached.
Inclusion/Removal criteria: Uses cross-validation.

Wrapper Methods

Relies on the predictive performance of a given learning algorithm.
Iteratively searches for a feature subset and evaluates its performance.
Iteratively searches a subset of features and evaluates its performance.
Computational expensive.
Typically uses greedy search strategies (e.g., sequential, best-first, branch and bound).

Filter Methods

Independent of the learning algorithm.
Evaluates feature importance based on data characteristics (e.g., correlation, mutual information).
More efficient than wrapper methods.
Selected features may not be optimal for a specific learning algorithm.

Single Feature Evaluation

Frequency-based methods.
Dependence of feature and label (Co-occurrence).
Mutual Information, Chi-square statistic.
Information theory (KL divergence, Information gain).
Gini indexing.

Embedded Methods

A trade-off between wrapper and filter methods.
Embeds feature selection into the learning algorithm (e.g., ID3).
Inherits the merits of wrappers and filters (interactions with the learning algorithm).
More efficient than wrapper methods.
Biased toward the underlying learning algorithm.

Traditional Feature Selection

Categorized into information-theoretic methods, statistical methods, and sparse learning methods.

Information Theoretical Methods

Employs heuristic filter criteria to measure feature importance.
Aims to find optimal features (relevant and non-redundant).

Preliminary Information Theoretical Measures

Entropy of a discrete variable X.
Conditional entropy of X given Y.
Information gain between X and Y.
Conditional Information Gain.

Sample Examples

Detailed example calculations for Entropy of Y, Conditional Entropy, and Information Gain.

Mutual Information-based Feature Selection

Information gain considers only feature relevance.
Features should not be redundant.
The score of a new feature fk considers both relevance and redundancy.

Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance

Improves on mutual information by considering redundancy.
The score of a new feature considers relevance and reduced redundancy.

Conditional Infomax Feature Extraction

Feature usefulness is determined by stronger correlation within classes compared to overall correlation.
Correlation does not imply redundancy.

g*( ) Function as Nonlinear Function

This function can be linear or nonlinear.

Information Gain (Lewis)

Information gain solely considers feature correlation with class labels.

Mutual Information(Battiti)

Mutual Information considers relevance and redundancy of features.

Statistical Methods

Based on different statistical criteria to assess features.
Most are filter methods, evaluating features independently.
Data discretization is often needed for numerical features.
T-Score and Chi-Square methods are examples used for binary and multi-class classification.

Statistical Based Methods - Summary

Includes methods like Low Variance-CFS, Kruskal Wallis.
Pros: Computationally efficient.
Cons: Cannot handle feature redundancy, requires data discretization.

Feature Selection Issues (Big Data)

Data Variety, Velocity, Volume.

Feature Sparsity

Indicates that many model parameters have small or zero values.

Sparse Learning Methods

Framework for finding optimal features (often uses l-norm regularization).
Examples: Lasso Regression.

Extension to Multi-Class or Multi-variate Problems

Adapting feature selection to handle multiple target variables in classification or regression.
Example method involves l2,1-norm.

Sparse Learning Methods - Summary

Includes multi-label feature selection and other techniques.
Pros: Often provides good model performance and interpretability.
Cons: Selected features might not be suitable for other tasks, computation can be expensive due to non-smooth optimization.

Feature Engineering - Additional Techniques

Numerical data (SVD, PCA).
Textual data (Bag-of-Words, TF-IDF).
Time series and GEO data.
Image data.
Relational data.
Anomaly detection.

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Questions and Answers

What is feature selection?

What are the benefits of feature selection? (Select all that apply)

Feature selection aims to identify and remove redundant and irrelevant features.

Explain the difference between feature selection and feature extraction.

Feature selection can improve model readability but sacrifices interpretability.

Which of the following learning techniques are generally considered to have a higher level of interpretability? (Select all that apply.)

In what scenarios is feature selection crucial?

Categorize feature selection algorithms from the label perspective.

Categorize feature selection algorithms from the selection strategy perspective.

Supervised feature selection is primarily used for clustering problems.

Unsupervised feature selection seeks alternative criteria to assess feature importance when labels are unavailable.

Briefly describe a scenario where semi-supervised feature selection is used.

Which two subset selection methods are commonly used in feature selection?

Inclusion/removal criteria for subset selection methods are determined using cross-validation techniques.

What are the two main steps involved in wrapper methods?

Wrapper methods can be applied to any machine learning model.

Wrapper methods often involve a greedy search strategy.

Wrapper methods are computationally expensive.

Filter methods are dependent on the learning algorithms.

Filter methods are more efficient than wrapper methods.

The chosen features from filter methods are always optimal for a specific learning algorithm.

Which of the following is NOT a common metric used for evaluating feature quality in single feature evaluation?

What distinguishes embedded methods from wrapper and filter methods?

Embedded methods are biased towards the underlying learning algorithm.

What are the three traditional categories of approaches to feature selection?

Information theoretical methods exploit heuristic filter criteria to measure feature importance.

Which of the following is NOT a common feature selection metric used in information theoretical based methods?

Information gain is a special case of the linear function in the general framework of information theoretical based methods.

Mutual information feature selection considers feature relevance without redundancy.

Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (MRMR) is a special case of the linear function in the general framework of information theoretical based methods.

Conditional Infomax Feature Extraction aims to leverage the correlation between classes, ensuring that it's stronger than the overall correlation.

Statistical based methods predominantly rely on filter feature selection techniques.

Which statistical measure is employed by the T-Score feature selection method?

A higher chi-square score indicates that the feature is more important.

Statistical based methods often struggle to handle feature redundancy.

What is feature sparsity?

The L1 norm, sometimes called Lasso, is a convex and NP-hard function.

The Lasso method is based on l-norm regularization on weight.

Lasso can be viewed as a special case of a constrained optimization problem.

The L2,1 norm is often used to achieve joint feature sparsity across multiple targets in multi-class classification and multi-variate regression.

Sparse learning methods are generally considered computationally expensive.

The curse of dimensionality refers to the challenges of dealing with high dimensional data, which can impact model performance and generalization.

Study Notes

Feature Selection

Relevant vs. Redundant Features

Feature Selection vs. Feature Extraction

Interpretability of Learning Algorithms

When Feature Selection is Important

Types of Feature Selection

Supervised Feature Selection

Unsupervised Feature Selection

Semi-Supervised Feature Selection

Feature Selection Techniques

Wrapper Methods

Filter Methods

Single Feature Evaluation

Embedded Methods

Traditional Feature Selection

Information Theoretical Methods

Preliminary Information Theoretical Measures

Sample Examples

Mutual Information-based Feature Selection

Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance

Conditional Infomax Feature Extraction

g*( ) Function as Nonlinear Function

Information Gain (Lewis)

Mutual Information(Battiti)

Statistical Methods

Statistical Based Methods - Summary

Feature Selection Issues (Big Data)

Feature Sparsity

Sparse Learning Methods

Extension to Multi-Class or Multi-variate Problems

Sparse Learning Methods - Summary

Feature Engineering - Additional Techniques

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