A review of the modification strategies of the nature inspired algorithms for feature selection problem

R Abu Khurma, I Aljarah, A Sharieh, M Abd Elaziz… - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This survey is an effort to provide a research repository and a useful reference for
researchers to guide them when planning to develop new Nature-inspired Algorithms …

A binary waterwheel plant optimization algorithm for feature selection

AA Alhussan, AA Abdelhamid, ESM El-Kenawy… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vast majority of today's data is collected and stored in enormous databases with a wide
range of characteristics that have little to do with the overarching goal concept. Feature …

A survey on swarm intelligence approaches to feature selection in data mining

BH Nguyen, B Xue, M Zhang - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the major problems in Big Data is a large number of features or dimensions, which
causes the issue of “the curse of dimensionality” when applying machine learning …

BEPO: A novel binary emperor penguin optimizer for automatic feature selection

G Dhiman, D Oliva, A Kaur, KK Singh, S Vimal… - Knowledge-Based …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Emperor Penguin Optimizer (EPO) is a metaheuristic algorithm which is recently
developed and illustrates the emperor penguin's huddling behaviour. However, the original …

A new fusion of grey wolf optimizer algorithm with a two-phase mutation for feature selection

M Abdel-Basset, D El-Shahat, I El-Henawy… - Expert Systems with …, 2020 - Elsevier
Because of their high dimensionality, dealing with large datasets can hinder the data mining
process. Thus, the feature selection is a pre-process mandatory phase for reducing the …

Improved binary particle swarm optimization for feature selection with new initialization and search space reduction strategies

AD Li, B Xue, M Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Feature selection (FS) is an important preprocessing technique for dimensionality reduction
in classification problems. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms have been widely …

Binary dragonfly optimization for feature selection using time-varying transfer functions

M Mafarja, I Aljarah, AA Heidari, H Faris… - Knowledge-Based …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dragonfly Algorithm (DA) is a recently proposed heuristic search algorithm that
was shown to have excellent performance for numerous optimization problems. In this …

A hybrid Harris Hawks optimization algorithm with simulated annealing for feature selection

M Abdel-Basset, W Ding, D El-Shahat - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2021 - Springer
The significant growth of modern technology and smart systems has left a massive
production of big data. Not only are the dimensional problems that face the big data, but …

Continuous metaheuristics for binary optimization problems: An updated systematic literature review

M Becerra-Rozas, J Lemus-Romani… - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
For years, extensive research has been in the binarization of continuous metaheuristics for
solving binary-domain combinatorial problems. This paper is a continuation of a previous …

Feature selection using binary grey wolf optimizer with elite-based crossover for Arabic text classification

H Chantar, M Mafarja, H Alsawalqah… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Text classification is one of the challenging computational tasks in machine learning
community due to the increased amounts of natural language text documents available in …