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 …

[PDF][PDF] Markov blanket based feature selection: a review of past decade

S Fu, MC Desmarais - Proceedings of the world congress on …, 2010 - researchgate.net
This paper summarizes the related works about feature selection via the induction of Markov
blanket which can be traced back to 1996, and the concept of Markov blanket itself firstly …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient multivariate feature ranking method for gene selection in high-dimensional microarray data

J Lee, IY Choi, CH Jun - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Classification of microarray data plays a significant role in the diagnosis and prediction of
cancer. However, its high-dimensionality (> tens of thousands) compared to the number of …

A fast PC algorithm for high dimensional causal discovery with multi-core PCs

TD Le, T Hoang, J Li, L Liu, H Liu… - IEEE/ACM transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discovering causal relationships from observational data is a crucial problem and it has
applications in many research areas. The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art constraint …

On distributed computing continuum systems

S Dustdar, VC Pujol, PK Donta - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents our vision on the need of developing new managing technologies to
harness distributed “computing continuum” systems. These systems are concurrently …

Accurate Markov boundary discovery for causal feature selection

X Wu, B Jiang, K Yu, H Chen - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Causal feature selection has achieved much attention in recent years, which discovers a
Markov boundary (MB) of the class attribute. The MB of the class attribute implies local …

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 …

A unified view of causal and non-causal feature selection

K Yu, L Liu, J Li - ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we aim to develop a unified view of causal and non-causal feature selection
methods. The unified view will fill in the gap in the research of the relation between the two …

BAMB: A balanced Markov blanket discovery approach to feature selection

Z Ling, K Yu, H Wang, L Liu, W Ding, X Wu - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The discovery of Markov blanket (MB) for feature selection has attracted much attention in
recent years, since the MB of the class attribute is the optimal feature subset for feature …

Towards efficient and effective discovery of Markov blankets for feature selection

H Wang, Z Ling, K Yu, X Wu - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The Markov blanket (MB), a key concept in a Bayesian network (BN), is essential for large-
scale BN structure learning and optimal feature selection. Many MB discovery algorithms …