Towards Truly Unsupervised Evaluation of Feature Selection
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Title:Towards Truly Unsupervised Evaluation of Feature Selection
Abstract:Feature selection is one of the most important and fundamental tasks in data mining, tackled by a family of methods with an established set of evaluation techniques to measure the quality of a specific method. Most of the methods commonly used for the unsupervised evaluation of feature selection algorithms suffer from critical design flaws which question their unsupervised nature. In this paper, we provide a critical discussion on the established allegedly unsupervised evaluation techniques, and shed light on the reasons why they are not truly unsupervised but, at best, supervised evaluation under an unsupervised downstream task. We also propose a novel, truly unsupervised evaluation framework to measure the quality of the feature selection algorithms without any form of information about the labels. The proposed framework utilizes unsupervised Principal Component Analysis, and optimal transport to measure the quality of the feature selection methods in a truly unsupervised manner.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.12057 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2608.12057v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.12057
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