SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data
arXiv:2610.13644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selecting a subset of features (columns) from a tabular dataset is a ubiquitous challenge in real-world applications. Industry experts seek to minimize model training costs, climate scientists require an interpretable subset of factors to understand extreme weather events, and clinicians need to choose among diagnostic tests due to financial and time constraints. When looking at the scientific literature to determine which feature selection meth…