A distributed PSO-SVM hybrid system with feature selection and parameter optimization

  • Authors:
  • Cheng-Lung Huang;Jian-Fan Dun

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, 2 Juoyue Road, Nantz District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Management, Huafan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This study proposed a novel PSO-SVM model that hybridized the particle swarm optimization (PSO) and support vector machines (SVM) to improve the classification accuracy with a small and appropriate feature subset. This optimization mechanism combined the discrete PSO with the continuous-valued PSO to simultaneously optimize the input feature subset selection and the SVM kernel parameter setting. The hybrid PSO-SVM data mining system was implemented via a distributed architecture using the web service technology to reduce the computational time. In a heterogeneous computing environment, the PSO optimization was performed on the application server and the SVM model was trained on the client (agent) computer. The experimental results showed the proposed approach can correctly select the discriminating input features and also achieve high classification accuracy.