Feature selection in machine learning: A new perspective

J Cai, J Luo, S Wang, S Yang - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
High-dimensional data analysis is a challenge for researchers and engineers in the fields of
machine learning and data mining. Feature selection provides an effective way to solve this …

A hybrid feature selection method based on information theory and binary butterfly optimization algorithm

Z Sadeghian, E Akbari, H Nematzadeh - Engineering Applications of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Feature selection is the problem of finding the optimal subset of features for predicting class
labels by removing irrelevant or redundant features. S-shaped Binary Butterfly Optimization …

Epileptic seizure detection in EEG using mutual information-based best individual feature selection

KM Hassan, MR Islam, TT Nguyen, MKI Molla - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders that affect normal brain activities and human
behavior. Electroencephalogram based automatic epileptic seizure detection has significant …

Feature selection based on feature interactions with application to text categorization

X Tang, Y Dai, Y **ang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Feature selection is an import preprocessing approach for machine learning and text mining.
It reduces the dimensions of high-dimensional data. A popular approach is based on …

Effective global approaches for mutual information based feature selection

XV Nguyen, J Chan, S Romano, J Bailey - Proceedings of the 20th ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Most current mutual information (MI) based feature selection techniques are greedy in
nature thus are prone to sub-optimal decisions. Potential performance improvements could …

Can high-order dependencies improve mutual information based feature selection?

NX Vinh, S Zhou, J Chan, J Bailey - Pattern Recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Mutual information (MI) based approaches are a popular paradigm for feature selection.
Most previous methods have made use of low-dimensional MI quantities that are only …

Hybrid fast unsupervised feature selection for high-dimensional data

Z Manbari, F AkhlaghianTab, C Salavati - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The emergence of``curse of dimensionality” issue as a result of high reduces datasets
deteriorates the capability of learning algorithms, and also requires high memory and …

Evaluating and selecting features via information theoretic lower bounds of feature inner correlations for high-dimensional data

Y Zhang, R Zhu, Z Chen, J Gao, D **a - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Feature selection is an important preprocessing and interpretable method in the fields where
big data plays an essential role. In this paper, we first reformulate and analyze some …

Global and local structure preserving sparse subspace learning: An iterative approach to unsupervised feature selection

N Zhou, Y Xu, H Cheng, J Fang, W Pedrycz - Pattern Recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
As we aim at alleviating the curse of high-dimensionality, subspace learning is becoming
more popular. Existing approaches use either information about global or local structure of …

Feature selection by integrating two groups of feature evaluation criteria

W Gao, L Hu, P Zhang, F Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Feature selection is a preprocessing step in many application areas that are relevant to
expert and intelligent systems, such as data mining and machine learning. Feature selection …