Automatic induction of projection pursuit indices

  • Authors:
  • E. Rodriguez-Martinez;John Yannis Goulermas;Tingting Mu;Jason F. Ralph

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK;Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK;National Center for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, MI, UK;Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Projection techniques are frequently used as the principal means for the implementation of feature extration and dimensionality reduction for machme learing applications. A well established and broad class of such projection techniques is the projection pursuit (PP). Its core design parameter is a projection index, which is the driving force in obtaining the transformation function via optimization, and represents in an explicit or implicit way the user's perception of the useful information contained within the datasets. This paper seeks to address the problem related to the design of PP index functions for the linear feature extraction case. We achieve this using an evolutionary search framework, capable of building new indices to fit the properties of the available datasets. The high expressive power of this framework is sustained by a rich set of function primitives. The performance of several PP indices previously proposed by human experts is compared with these automatically generated indices for the task of classification, and results show a decrease in the classification errors.