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Fast Best Subset Selection

v0.4.11 · Dec 8, 2025 · GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE

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Extremely efficient toolkit for solving the best subset selection problem <https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v23/21-1060.html>. This package is its R interface. The package implements and generalizes algorithms designed in <doi:10.1073/pnas.2014241117> that exploits a novel sequencing-and-splicing technique to guarantee exact support recovery and globally optimal solution in polynomial times for linear model. It also supports best subset selection for logistic regression, Poisson regression, Cox proportional hazard model, Gamma regression, multiple-response regression, multinomial logistic regression, ordinal regression, Ising model reconstruction <doi:10.1080/01621459.2025.2571245>, (sequential) principal component analysis, and robust principal component analysis. The other valuable features such as the best subset of group selection <doi:10.1287/ijoc.2022.1241> and sure independence screening <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00674.x> are also provided.

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v0.4.11

# abess 0.4.11
• Add a new function slide that supports Ising model reconstruction
• The maintainer's changed from <zhuj37@mail2.sysu.edu.cn> to <zhuj1jqx@gmail.com>.

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NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

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Version History

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new 0.4.11 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4.11 ← 0.4.10 diff Dec 7, 2025
updated 0.4.10 ← 0.4.9 diff Apr 4, 2025
updated 0.4.9 ← 0.4.8 diff Sep 8, 2024
updated 0.4.8 ← 0.4.7 diff Sep 18, 2023
updated 0.4.7 ← 0.4.6 diff Feb 19, 2023
updated 0.4.6 ← 0.4.5 diff Nov 5, 2022
updated 0.4.5 ← 0.4.0 diff Mar 21, 2022
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Dec 7, 2021
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff Sep 2, 2021
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Jul 30, 2021
new 0.1.0 Apr 20, 2021