Summary of Spectral Self-supervised Feature Selection, by Daniel Segal et al.
Spectral Self-supervised Feature Selection
by Daniel Segal, Ofir Lindenbaum, Ariel Jaffe
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A self-supervised graph-based approach for unsupervised feature selection is proposed to enhance the accuracy of downstream analysis in high-dimensional observations. The method computes robust pseudo-labels by processing eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian and measures feature importance by training a surrogate model to predict pseudo-labels from observations. This approach shows robustness to challenging scenarios, including outliers and complex substructures, and demonstrates effectiveness on real-world datasets across multiple domains. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Unsupervised feature selection is important for improving accuracy in clustering or dimensionality reduction tasks. A new method uses graph-based processing to select the most important features from high-dimensional data. This approach works by giving each feature a “label” based on its connection to other features, and then trains another model to predict these labels. The authors tested this method on real-world datasets and found it worked well even when there were outliers or complex patterns in the data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering * Dimensionality reduction * Feature selection * Self supervised * Unsupervised
