TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent advances in feature selection and its applications
AU - Li, Yun
AU - Li, Tao
AU - Liu, Huan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61603197, 91646116), Ministry of Education/China Mobile joint research Grant under Project No. 5-10, Scientific, Technological Support Project (Society) of Jiangsu Province (No. BE2016776), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20140885), Six talent peaks project in Jiangsu Province under Grant XYDXXJS-CXTD-006 and Jiangsu Qinlan Project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer-Verlag London.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Data mining
KW - Feature selection
KW - Survey
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U2 - 10.1007/s10115-017-1059-8
DO - 10.1007/s10115-017-1059-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018783981
SN - 0219-1377
VL - 53
SP - 551
EP - 577
JO - Knowledge and Information Systems
JF - Knowledge and Information Systems
IS - 3
ER -