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48 results for Auto Feature Engineering

Timely prediction of clinically critical events in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is important for improving care and survival rate. Most of the existing approaches are based on the application of various classification methods on explicitly extracted statistical features from vital signals. In this work, we propose to elim…

2018-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph auto-encoder predicts unobserved node features from biological networks and omics data.

problem Integrating biological networks and continuous node features for better prediction.
method Graph neural networks and feature auto-encoders trained on feature reconstruction.
result Graph feature auto-encoder outperforms auto-encoders trained on graph reconstruction for predicting unobserved node features.

We present two instances, L-GAE and L-VGAE, of the variational graph auto-encoding family (VGAE) based on separating feature propagation operations from graph convolution layers typically found in graph learning methods to a single linear matrix computation made prior to input in standard auto-encoder architectures. Th…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper learns state, dynamics, and filtering algorithms together for data assimilation.

problem Costly parameter tuning and inaccurate dynamics models hinder data assimilation algorithms.
method Auto-differentiable data assimilation framework that learns state, dynamics, and parameters via gradient-based optimization.
result Several data assimilation methods can be learned or tuned within this framework.

Principal components analysis (PCA) is the optimal linear auto-encoder of data, and it is often used to construct features. Enforcing sparsity on the principal components can promote better generalization, while improving the interpretability of the features. We study the problem of constructing optimal sparse linear a…

2015-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Auto-sklearn 2.0 simplifies AutoML with meta-learning and meta-feature-free techniques.

problem Designing efficient machine learning pipelines for large datasets under time constraints.
method PoSH Auto-sklearn uses meta-learning and bandit strategy for budget allocation.
result Reduces relative error by up to a factor of 4.5 and improves performance in 10 minutes.

FeatureEnVi aids in feature engineering with visual analytics.

problem Insufficient support for feature engineering in visual analytics tools.
method Stepwise selection and semi-automatic extraction approaches.
result Extracts heavily engineered features evaluated by multiple metrics.

BiCB combines traffic prediction and bidding optimization for live advertising.

problem Real-time bidding in live advertising with unknown future traffic.
method Binary Constrained Bidding (BiCB) that merges mathematical analysis and statistical traffic estimation.
result BiCB achieves good approximation to optimal bidding results with low complexity.

AutoDiff combines auto-encoder and diffusion model for realistic tabular data synthesis.

problem Generating realistic synthetic tabular data with heterogeneous features.
method Employing auto-encoder architecture to handle tabular data's complexity.
result Synthetic tables from AutoDiff show good statistical fidelity and perform well in machine learning tasks.

Automated feature engineering improves interpretable models without manual work.

problem Lack of interpretability in complex models causes trust and stability issues.
method Use elastic black-box models to create simpler, interpretable glass-box models.
result Extracted features from complex models improve linear model performance.

SAFE automates feature engineering for industrial tasks efficiently and scalably.

problem Efficiency and scalability of automatic feature engineering methods for industrial tasks.
method SAFE (Scalable Automatic Feature Engineering) method, which provides excellent efficiency and scalability.
result SAFE method provides prominent efficiency and competitive effectiveness in industrial tasks.

Enhanced loss function boosts fraud detection in auto insurance claims.

problem Class imbalance in auto insurance fraud detection.
method Structured three-stage training framework integrating convex surrogate, non-convex intermediate, and standard focal loss.
result Improves minority-class F1-scores and AUC compared to baseline methods.

SCOPE-FE improves feature engineering efficiency for high-dimensional datasets.

problem Expanding and reducing feature space in tabular learning becomes computationally expensive with increased dimensionality.
method SCOPE-FE controls the search space by regulating operator and feature-pair spaces, using OperatorProbing and FeatureClustering.
result SCOPE-FE reduces feature engineering time while maintaining competitive predictive performance.

The authors seek financial datasets to benchmark feature engineering methods on US market data.

problem Improving predictive models for financial data science competitions.
method Feature engineering methods applied to multivariate time-series data from the US market.
result Predictive power of models tested against Numerai-Signals targets.

Feature learning and deep learning have drawn great attention in recent years as a way of transforming input data into more effective representations using learning algorithms. Such interest has grown in the area of music information retrieval (MIR) as well, particularly in music audio classification tasks such as auto…

2015-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

DIVA clusters dynamic data without needing cluster count, outperforming baselines.

problem Clustering complex, dynamic data without prior knowledge of cluster count.
method Nonparametric Dirichlet Process Mixtures with memoized online variational inference.
result DIVA outperforms state-of-the-art in classifying complex data with changing features.

Graph Neural Networks improve machine learning on relational databases.

problem Training machine learning models on relational databases requires costly data extraction and feature engineering.
method Uses Graph Neural Networks to extract features from relational databases.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art automatic feature engineering methods.

MIAEAD detects anomalies in mixed data types.

problem Challenges of heterogeneity in feature subsets for anomaly detection.
method Multiple-Input Variational Auto-Encoder (MIVAE) for simultaneous feature subset anomaly scoring.
result MIVAE outperforms conventional methods and state-of-the-art unsupervised models in AUC score.

Simple GBRT model improved by window-based input transformation outperforms state-of-the-art deep learning models.

problem Improving performance of traditional forecasting models for time series data.
method Transformed GBRT model input structure to include target values and external features, forming one input instance per training window.
result Simple GBRT model with window-based input transformation outperformed state-of-the-art deep learning models on nine datasets.

Mask-reconstruction pretraining helps in downstream tasks by capturing more semantic features.

problem How mask-reconstruction pretraining helps in downstream tasks and why it surpasses supervised learning.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental validation of mask-reconstruction pretraining (MRP) on auto-encoders.
result MRP provably captures more semantic features than supervised learning, leading to better performance in downstream tasks.

This work learns effective dynamics from short-term data of stochastic systems.

problem Learning effective dynamics from short-term data of stochastic systems.
method Proposes a novel algorithm using a neural network (Auto-SDE) to learn invariant slow manifold from data.
result Validated through numerical experiments to be accurate, stable, and effective.

FLFE improves machine learning by efficiently and securely transforming features.

problem Efficiently and securely transforming features in a multi-party setting.
method FLFE uses a pre-learning pattern to selectively transform features, reducing communication overhead.
result FLFE outperforms evaluation-based approaches in feature transformation efficiency.

Efficient deep learning computing requires algorithm and hardware co-design to enable specialization: we usually need to change the algorithm to reduce memory footprint and improve energy efficiency. However, the extra degree of freedom from the algorithm makes the design space much larger: it's not only about designin…

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, a multi-layer architecture (in a hierarchical fashion) by stacking various Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) based Auto-Encoder for one-class classification is proposed and is referred as MKOC. MKOC has many layers of Auto-Encoders to project the input features into new feature space and the last layer was r…

2018-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditional set prediction models can struggle with simple datasets due to an issue we call the responsibility problem. We introduce a pooling method for sets of feature vectors based on sorting features across elements of the set. This can be used to construct a permutation-equivariant auto-encoder that avoids this re…

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce the variational graph auto-encoder (VGAE), a framework for unsupervised learning on graph-structured data based on the variational auto-encoder (VAE). This model makes use of latent variables and is capable of learning interpretable latent representations for undirected graphs. We demonstrate this model us…

2016-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Feature engineering has been the key to the success of many prediction models. However, the process is non-trivial and often requires manual feature engineering or exhaustive searching. DNNs are able to automatically learn feature interactions; however, they generate all the interactions implicitly, and are not necessa…

2017-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

ABM automates feature engineering and variable selection for loss-based models.

problem Improving model performance through better feature engineering and variable selection.
method ABM uses group and fused lasso regularization to automatically select cutting points and variables.
result ABM integrates feature engineering, variable selection, and model training.

Paper tackles zero-shot activity recognition using video features and text embeddings.

problem Zero-shot activity recognition with videos.
method Auto-encoder model for multimodal joint embedding, 3D convolutional action recognition for visual features, GloVe word embeddings for textual features.
result Improved zero-shot recognition results with top-n accuracy and mean Nearest Neighbor Overlap.

Hybrid engine analyzes news sentiment for markets in real-time.

problem Real-time market analysis of news sentiment.
method Three-way ensemble learning combining financial lexicon, adaptive TF-IDF clustering, and auto-calibrated weighting.
result Adaptive statistical clustering learner improves adaptability to market changes.

Improves naturalness in TTS samples using quantized VAE and auto-regressive prosody.

problem Discontinuous and unnatural speech from standard VAE priors.
method Discretized latent features using vector quantization (VQ), and separately trained autoregressive (AR) prior model.
result Significantly improves naturalness in random sample generation.