Causality-based feature selection: Methods and evaluations

K Yu, X Guo, L Liu, J Li, H Wang, Z Ling… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Feature selection is a crucial preprocessing step in data analytics and machine learning.
Classical feature selection algorithms select features based on the correlations between …

[HTML][HTML] Causal reasoning meets visual representation learning: A prospective study

Y Liu, YS Wei, H Yan, GB Li, L Lin - Machine Intelligence Research, 2022 - Springer
Visual representation learning is ubiquitous in various real-world applications, including
visual comprehension, video understanding, multi-modal analysis, human-computer …

Error-aware Markov blanket learning for causal feature selection

X Guo, K Yu, F Cao, P Li, H Wang - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Causal feature selection has attracted much attention in recent years, since it has better
robustness than the traditional feature selection. Existing causal feature selection algorithms …

Multi-label causal feature selection

X Wu, B Jiang, K Yu, H Chen, C Miao - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Multi-label feature selection has received considerable attentions during the past decade.
However, existing algorithms do not attempt to uncover the underlying causal mechanism …

Domain knowledge-enhanced variable selection for biomedical data analysis

X Wu, Z Tao, B Jiang, T Wu, X Wang, H Chen - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning has achieved impressive results in biomedical data analysis. To
cope with high-dimensional data, variable selection is proposed to identify patterns in the …

Multi-target Markov boundary discovery: Theory, algorithm, and application

X Wu, B Jiang, Y Zhong, H Chen - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Markov boundary (MB) has been widely studied in single-target scenarios. Relatively few
works focus on the MB discovery for variable set due to the complex variable relationships …

Feature selection in the data stream based on incremental Markov boundary learning

X Wu, B Jiang, X Wang, T Ban… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of techniques for streaming data mining to
meet the demands of many real-time systems, where high-dimensional streaming data are …

Separation and recovery Markov boundary discovery and its application in EEG-based emotion recognition

X Wu, B Jiang, K Yu, H Chen - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In a Bayesian network (BN), the Markov boundary (MB) presents the local causal structure
around a target. Due to the interpretability and robustness, it has been widely applied to …

Adaptive skeleton construction for accurate DAG learning

X Guo, K Yu, L Liu, P Li, J Li - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Directed acyclic graph (DAG) learning plays a key role in causal discovery and many
machine learning tasks. Learning a DAG from high-dimensional data always faces …

Practical Markov boundary learning without strong assumptions

X Wu, B Jiang, T Wu, H Chen - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Theoretically, the Markov boundary (MB) is the optimal solution for feature selection.
However, existing MB learning algorithms often fail to identify some critical features in real …