Attribute reduction methods in fuzzy rough set theory: An overview, comparative experiments, and new directions

Z Yuan, H Chen, P Xie, P Zhang, J Liu, T Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuzzy rough set theory is a powerful tool to deal with uncertainty information, which has
been successfully applied to the fields of attribute reduction, rule extraction, classification …

Fuzzy rough sets and fuzzy rough neural networks for feature selection: A review

W Ji, Y Pang, X Jia, Z Wang, F Hou… - … : Data Mining and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Feature selection aims to select a feature subset from an original feature set based on a
certain evaluation criterion. Since feature selection can achieve efficient feature reduction, it …

Attribute reduction with fuzzy rough self-information measures

C Wang, Y Huang, W Ding, Z Cao - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The fuzzy rough set is one of the most effective methods for dealing with the fuzziness and
uncertainty of data. However, in most cases this model only considers the information …

Feature selection based on neighborhood self-information

C Wang, Y Huang, M Shao, Q Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of dependency in a neighborhood rough set model is an important evaluation
function for the feature selection. This function considers only the classification information …

Three-way cognitive concept learning via multi-granularity

J Li, C Huang, J Qi, Y Qian, W Liu - Information sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
The key strategy of the three-way decisions theory is to consider a decision-making problem
as a ternary classification one (ie acceptance, rejection and non-commitment). Recently, this …

Fuzzy rough attribute reduction for categorical data

C Wang, Y Wang, M Shao, Y Qian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classical rough set theory is considered a useful tool for dealing with the uncertainty of
categorical data. The major deficiency of this model is that the classical rough set model is …

Fuzzy rough set-based attribute reduction using distance measures

C Wang, Y Huang, M Shao, X Fan - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Attribute reduction is one of the most important applications of fuzzy rough sets in machine
learning and pattern recognition. Most existing methods employ the intersection operation of …

Feature selection based on neighborhood discrimination index

C Wang, Q Hu, X Wang, D Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection is viewed as an important preprocessing step for pattern recognition,
machine learning, and data mining. Neighborhood is one of the most important concepts in …

A novel approach to attribute reduction based on weighted neighborhood rough sets

M Hu, ECC Tsang, Y Guo, D Chen, W Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Neighborhood rough sets based attribute reduction, as a common dimension reduction
method, has been widely used in machine learning and data mining. Each attribute has the …

A fitting model for feature selection with fuzzy rough sets

C Wang, Y Qi, M Shao, Q Hu, D Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fuzzy rough set is an important rough set model used for feature selection. It uses the fuzzy
rough dependency as a criterion for feature selection. However, this model can merely …