A comprehensive survey on recent metaheuristics for feature selection

T Dokeroglu, A Deniz, HE Kiziloz - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Feature selection has become an indispensable machine learning process for data
preprocessing due to the ever-increasing sizes in actual data. There have been many …

A survey on evolutionary multiobjective feature selection in classification: approaches, applications, and challenges

R Jiao, BH Nguyen, B Xue… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maximizing the classification accuracy and minimizing the number of selected features are
two primary objectives in feature selection, which is inherently a multiobjective task …

A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with interval based initialization and self-adaptive crossover operator for large-scale feature selection in classification

Y Xue, X Cai, F Neri - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Feature selection (FS) is an important data pre-processing technique in classification. In
most cases, FS can improve classification accuracy and reduce feature dimension, so it can …

Differential evolution-based feature selection: A niching-based multiobjective approach

P Wang, B Xue, J Liang, M Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection is to reduce both the dimensionality of data and the classification error rate
(ie, increase the classification accuracy) of a learning algorithm. The two objectives are often …

Surrogate sample-assisted particle swarm optimization for feature selection on high-dimensional data

X Song, Y Zhang, D Gong, H Liu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increase of the number of features and the sample size, existing feature selection
(FS) methods based on evolutionary optimization still face challenges such as the “curse of …

Multiobjective differential evolution for feature selection in classification

P Wang, B Xue, J Liang, M Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection aims to reduce the number of features and improve the classification
accuracy, which is an essential step in many real-world problems. Multiple feature subsets …

Solving multi-objective feature selection problems in classification via problem reformulation and duplication handling

R Jiao, B Xue, M Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reducing the number of selected features and improving the classification performance are
two major objectives in feature selection, which can be viewed as a multi-objective …

Benefiting from single-objective feature selection to multiobjective feature selection: a multiform approach

R Jiao, B Xue, M Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary multiobjective feature selection (FS) has gained increasing attention in recent
years. However, it still faces some challenges, for example, the frequently appeared …

A hybrid two-stage teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm for feature selection in bioinformatics

Y Kang, H Wang, B Pu, L Tao, J Chen… - … /ACM transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The “curse of dimensionality” brings new challenges to the feature selection (FS) problem,
especially in bioinformatics filed. In this paper, we propose a hybrid Two-Stage Teaching …

Reinforcement learning guided auto-select optimization algorithm for feature selection

H Zhang, X Yue, X Gao - Expert Systems with Applications, 2025 - Elsevier
Feature selection (FS) is increasingly important in classification tasks. Although
metaheuristic algorithms have been extensively utilized for FS problems, they share the …