Attribute reduction methods in fuzzy rough set theory: An overview, comparative experiments, and new directions

Z Yuan, H Chen, P **e, P Zhang, J Liu, T Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuzzy rough set theory is a powerful tool to deal with uncertainty information, which has
been successfully applied to the fields of attribute reduction, rule extraction, classification …

Fuzzy rough sets and fuzzy rough neural networks for feature selection: A review

W Ji, Y Pang, X Jia, Z Wang, F Hou… - … : Data Mining and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Feature selection aims to select a feature subset from an original feature set based on a
certain evaluation criterion. Since feature selection can achieve efficient feature reduction, it …

Unsupervised attribute reduction for mixed data based on fuzzy rough sets

Z Yuan, H Chen, T Li, Z Yu, B Sang, C Luo - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Unsupervised attribute reduction becomes very challenging due to a lack of decision
information, which is to select a subset of attributes that can maintain learning ability without …

Unsupervised feature selection via latent representation learning and manifold regularization

C Tang, M Bian, X Liu, M Li, H Zhou, P Wang, H Yin - Neural Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of multimedia technology, massive unlabelled data with high
dimensionality need to be processed. As a means of dimensionality reduction, unsupervised …

A novel unsupervised approach to heterogeneous feature selection based on fuzzy mutual information

Z Yuan, H Chen, P Zhang, J Wan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming at the problem of effectively selecting relevant features from heterogeneous data
without decision, a novel feature selection approach is studied based on fuzzy mutual …

Exploring interactive attribute reduction via fuzzy complementary entropy for unlabeled mixed data

Z Yuan, H Chen, T Li - Pattern Recognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Attribute reduction is one of the important applications in fuzzy rough set theory. However,
most attribute reduction methods in fuzzy rough theory mainly focus on removing irrelevant …

Attribute clustering using rough set theory for feature selection in fault severity classification of rotating machinery

F Pacheco, M Cerrada, RV Sánchez, D Cabrera… - Expert Systems with …, 2017 - Elsevier
Features extracted from real world applications increase dramatically, while machine
learning methods decrease their performance given the previous scenario, and feature …

Fuzzy complementary entropy using hybrid-kernel function and its unsupervised attribute reduction

Z Yuan, H Chen, X Yang, T Li, K Liu - Knowledge-based systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuzzy rough set theory has been proved to be an effective tool to deal with uncertainty data.
Some different forms of fuzzy uncertainty measures have been introduced in fuzzy rough set …

Weighted fuzzy rough sets-based tri-training and its application to medical diagnosis

J **ng, C Gao, J Zhou - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
The theory of fuzzy rough sets is an effective soft computing paradigm for dealing with
vague, uncertain, or imprecise data. However, most existing fuzzy rough sets-based …

Applications of fuzzy rough set theory in machine learning: a survey

S Vluymans, L D'eer, Y Saeys… - Fundamenta …, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Data used in machine learning applications is prone to contain both vague and incomplete
information. Many authors have proposed to use fuzzy rough set theory in the development …