Improving Statistical Measures of Feature Subsets by Conventional and Evolutionary Approaches

  • Authors:
  • Helmut A. Mayer;Petr Somol;Reinhold Huber;Pavel Pudil

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Joint IAPR International Workshops on Advances in Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper we compare recently developed and highly effective sequential feature selection algorithms with approaches based on evolutionary algorithms enabling parallel feature subset selection. We introduce the oscillating search method, employ permutation encoding offering some advantages over the more traditional bitmap encoding for the evolutionary search, and compare these algorithms to the often studied and well-performing sequential forward floating search. For the empirical analysis of these algorithms we utilize three well-known benchmark problems, and assess the quality of feature subsets by means of the statistical Bhattacharyya distance measure.