• Distributed correlation-based feature selection in spark 

      Palma Mendoza, Raúl José; Marcos, Luis de; Rodríguez, Daniel; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection (FS) is a key preprocessing step in data mining. CFS (Correlation-Based Feature Selection) is an FS algorithm that has been successfully applied to classification problems in many domains. We ...
    • Fast anomaly detection with locality-sensitive hashing and hyperparameter autotuning 

      Meira, Jorge; Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Marreiros, Goreti; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2022-08)
      [Abstract]: This paper presents LSHAD, an anomaly detection (AD) method based on Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), capable of dealing with large-scale datasets. The resulting algorithm is highly parallelizable and its ...
    • Fast Distributed kNN Graph Construction Using Auto-tuned Locality-sensitive Hashing 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Martínez Rego, David; Kanthan, Leslie; Piñeiro, César; Bahamonde, Antonio; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Association for Computing Machinery, 2020)
      [Abstract]: The k-nearest-neighbors (kNN) graph is a popular and powerful data structure that is used in various areas of Data Science, but the high computational cost of obtaining it hinders its use on large datasets. ...
    • Interpretable market segmentation on high dimension data 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Bahamonde, Antonio (M D P I AG, 2018-09-17)
      [Abstract] Obtaining relevant information from the vast amount of data generated by interactions in a market or, in general, from a dyadic dataset, is a broad problem of great interest both for industry and academia. Also, ...
    • Large scale anomaly detection in mixed numerical and categorical input spaces 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Martínez Rego, David; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Bahamonde, Antonio (Elsevier, 2019)
      [Abstract]: This work presents the ADMNC method, designed to tackle anomaly detection for large-scale problems with a mixture of categorical and numerical input variables. A flexible parametric probability measure is ...
    • On the scalability of feature selection methods on high-dimensional data 

      Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Rego-Fernández, Diego; Peteiro Barral, Diego; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Sánchez-Maroño, Noelia (Springer, 2018)
      [Abstract]: Lately, derived from the explosion of high dimensionality, researchers in machine learning became interested not only in accuracy, but also in scalability. Although scalability of learning methods is a trending ...
    • Regression Tree Based Explanation for Anomaly Detection Algorithm 

      López-Riobóo Botana, Iñigo Luis; Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (MDPI AG, 2020-08-18)
      [Abstract] This work presents EADMNC (Explainable Anomaly Detection on Mixed Numerical and Categorical spaces), a novel approach to address explanation using an anomaly detection algorithm, ADMNC, which provides accurate ...
    • Scalable Feature Selection Using ReliefF Aided by Locality-Sensitive Hashing 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Bahamonde, Antonio (Wiley, 2021)
      [Abstract] Feature selection algorithms, such as ReliefF, are very important for processing high-dimensionality data sets. However, widespread use of popular and effective such algorithms is limited by their computational ...