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Baokun He

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AAAI Conference 2019 Conference Paper

Heuristic Search Algorithm for Dimensionality Reduction Optimally Combining Feature Selection and Feature Extraction

  • Baokun He
  • Swair Shah
  • Crystal Maung
  • Gordon Arnold
  • Guihong Wan
  • Haim Schweitzer

The following are two classical approaches to dimensionality reduction: 1. Approximating the data with a small number of features that exist in the data (feature selection). 2. Approximating the data with a small number of arbitrary features (feature extraction). We study a generalization that approximates the data with both selected and extracted features. We show that an optimal solution to this hybrid problem involves a combinatorial search, and cannot be trivially obtained even if one can solve optimally the separate problems of selection and extraction. Our approach that gives optimal and approximate solutions uses a “best first” heuristic search. The algorithm comes with both an a priori and an a posteriori optimality guarantee similar to those that can be obtained for the classical weighted A* algorithm. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

AAAI Conference 2018 Short Paper

Solving Generalized Column Subset Selection With Heuristic Search

  • Swair Shah
  • Baokun He
  • Ke Xu
  • Crystal Maung
  • Haim Schweitzer

We address the problem of approximating a matrix by the linear combination of a column sparse matrix and a low rank matrix. Two variants of a heuristic search algorithm are described. The first produces an optimal solution but may be slow, as these problems are believed to be NP-hard. The second is much faster, but only guarantees a suboptimal solution. The quality of the approximation and the optimality criterion can be specified in terms of unitarily invariant norms.

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