Evolved feature weighting for random subspace classifier

IEEE Trans Neural Netw. 2008 Feb;19(2):363-6. doi: 10.1109/TNN.2007.910737.

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.

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Cluster Analysis*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated*
  • Reproducibility of Results