Evolved Feature Weighting for Random Subspace Classifier

  • Authors:
  • L. Nanni;A. Lumini

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. di Bologna, Bologna;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The problem addressed in this letter concerns the multiclassifier generation by a random subspace method (RSM). In the RSM, the classifiers are constructed in random subspaces of the data feature space. In this letter, we propose an evolved feature weighting approach: in each subspace, the features are multiplied by a weight factor for minimizing the error rate in the training set. An efficient method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is here proposed for finding a set of weights for each feature in each subspace. The performance improvement with respect to the state-of-the-art approaches is validated through experiments with several benchmark data sets.