A hybrid feature selection method to improve performance of a group of classification algorithms

M Naseriparsa, AM Bidgoli, T Varaee - arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2372, 2014 - arxiv.org
In this paper a hybrid feature selection method is proposed which takes advantages of
wrapper subset evaluation with a lower cost and improves the performance of a group of …

A wrapper approach for feature selection based on bat algorithm and optimum-path forest

D Rodrigues, LAM Pereira, RYM Nakamura… - Expert Systems with …, 2014 - Elsevier
Besides optimizing classifier predictive performance and addressing the curse of the
dimensionality problem, feature selection techniques support a classification model as …

A cluster-based feature selection approach

TF Covões, ER Hruschka, LN de Castro… - … Intelligence Systems: 4th …, 2009 - Springer
This paper proposes a filter-based method for feature selection. The filter is based on the
partitioning of the feature space into clusters of similar features. The number of clusters and …

Evolution of the random subset feature selection algorithm for classification problem

H SabbaghGol, H Saadatfar, M Khazaiepoor - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Datasets often include excessive or irrelevant data that affect the performance and
complexity of the machine learning model. Feature selection is one of the most effective …

Empirical study of feature selection methods in classification

A Araúzo-Azofra, JM Benítez - 2008 Eighth International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of feature selection can improve accuracy, efficiency, applicability and
understandability of a learning process and the resulting learner. For this reason, many …

Feature selection via minimizing nearest neighbor classification error

PF Zhu, TH Meng, YL Zhao, RX Ma… - … Conference on Machine …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection is viewed as an important preprocessing step for pattern recognition,
machine learning and data mining. It is used to find an optimal subset to reduce …

[PDF][PDF] A hybrid feature selection by resampling, chi squared and consistency evaluation techniques

AM Bidgoli, MN Parsa - World Academy of Science, Engineering …, 2012 - researchgate.net
HE growth of the size of data and number of existing databases exceeds the ability of
humans to analyze this data, which creates both a need and an opportunity to extract …

Hybrid feature selection using genetic algorithm and information theory

JH Cho, DJ Lee, JI Park, MG Chun - International Journal of Fuzzy …, 2013 - koreascience.kr
In pattern classification, feature selection is an important factor in the performance of
classifiers. In particular, when classifying a large number of features or variables, the …

Feature selection using dynamic weights for classification

X Sun, Y Liu, M Xu, H Chen, J Han, K Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Feature selection aims at finding a feature subset that has the most discriminative
information from the original feature set. In this paper, we firstly present a new scheme for …

Hybrid approach for diagnosing thyroid, hepatitis, and breast cancer based on correlation based feature selection and Naïve bayes

M Ashraf, G Chetty, D Tran, D Sharma - … 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part IV …, 2012 - Springer
Feature selection techniques have become an obvious need for researchers in computer
science and many other fields of science. Whether the target research is in medicine …