mlr_filters_selected_features: Filter for Embedded Feature Selection

In mlr3filters: Filter Based Feature Selection for 'mlr3'

Filter for Embedded Feature Selection

Description

Filter using embedded feature selection of machine learning algorithms. Takes a mlr3::Learner which is capable of extracting the selected features (property "selected_features"), fits the model and extracts the selected features.

Note that contrary to mlr_filters_importance, there is no ordering in the selected features. Selected features get a score of 1, deselected features get a score of 0. The order of selected features is random and different from the order in the learner. In combination with mlr3pipelines, only the filter criterion cutoff makes sense.

Super classes

mlr3filters::Filter -> mlr3filters::FilterLearner -> FilterSelectedFeatures

Public fields

learner

(mlr3::Learner)
Learner to extract the importance values from.

Methods

Public methods

• FilterSelectedFeatures$new()

• FilterSelectedFeatures$clone()

Inherited methods

• mlr3filters::Filter$calculate()
• mlr3filters::Filter$format()
• mlr3filters::Filter$help()
• mlr3filters::Filter$print()

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Method new()

Create a FilterImportance object.

Usage

FilterSelectedFeatures$new(learner = mlr3::lrn("classif.featureless"))

Arguments

learner

(mlr3::Learner)
Learner to extract the selected features from.

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

FilterSelectedFeatures$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

See Also

• PipeOpFilter for filter-based feature selection.

• Dictionary of Filters: mlr_filters

Other Filter: Filter, mlr_filters, mlr_filters_anova, mlr_filters_auc, mlr_filters_boruta, mlr_filters_carscore, mlr_filters_carsurvscore, mlr_filters_cmim, mlr_filters_correlation, mlr_filters_disr, mlr_filters_find_correlation, mlr_filters_importance, mlr_filters_information_gain, mlr_filters_jmi, mlr_filters_jmim, mlr_filters_kruskal_test, mlr_filters_mim, mlr_filters_mrmr, mlr_filters_njmim, mlr_filters_performance, mlr_filters_permutation, mlr_filters_relief, mlr_filters_univariate_cox, mlr_filters_variance

Examples

if (requireNamespace("rpart")) {
  task = mlr3::tsk("iris")
  learner = mlr3::lrn("classif.rpart")
  filter = flt("selected_features", learner = learner)
  filter$calculate(task)
  as.data.table(filter)
}

if (mlr3misc::require_namespaces(c("mlr3pipelines", "mlr3learners", "rpart"), quietly = TRUE)) {
  library("mlr3pipelines")
  library("mlr3learners")
  task = mlr3::tsk("sonar")

  filter = flt("selected_features", learner = lrn("classif.rpart"))

  # Note: All filter scores are either 0 or 1, i.e. setting `filter.cutoff = 0.5` means that
  # we select all "selected features".

  graph = po("filter", filter = filter, filter.cutoff = 0.5) %>>%
    po("learner", mlr3::lrn("classif.log_reg"))

  graph$train(task)
}

mlr3filters documentation built on Sept. 13, 2025, 1:08 a.m.