Consistency measures for feature selection

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Arauzo-Azofra;Jose Manuel Benitez;Juan Luis Castro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Rural Engineering, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain 14071;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 18071;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 18071

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The use of feature selection can improve accuracy, efficiency, applicability and understandability of a learning process. For this reason, many methods of automatic feature selection have been developed. Some of these methods are based on the search of the features that allows the data set to be considered consistent. In a search problem we usually evaluate the search states, in the case of feature selection we measure the possible feature sets. This paper reviews the state of the art of consistency based feature selection methods, identifying the measures used for feature sets. An in-deep study of these measures is conducted, including the definition of a new measure necessary for completeness. After that, we perform an empirical evaluation of the measures comparing them with the highly reputed wrapper approach. Consistency measures achieve similar results to those of the wrapper approach with much better efficiency.