Abstract

Feature selection is one of the key problems for machine learning and data mining. In this review paper, a brief historical background of the field is given, followed by a selection of challenges which are of particular current interests, such as feature selection for high-dimensional small sample size data, large-scale data, and secure feature selection. Along with these challenges, some hot topics for feature selection have emerged, e.g., stable feature selection, multi-view feature selection, distributed feature selection, multi-label feature selection, online feature selection, and adversarial feature selection. Then, the recent advances of these topics are surveyed in this paper. For each topic, the existing problems are analyzed, and then, current solutions to these problems are presented and discussed. Besides the topics, some representative applications of feature selection are also introduced, such as applications in bioinformatics, social media, and multimedia retrieval.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)551-577
Number of pages27
JournalKnowledge and Information Systems
Volume53
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2017

Keywords

  • Data mining
  • Feature selection
  • Survey

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence

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