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PSO with surrogate models for feature selection: static and dynamic clustering-based methods

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Feature selection is an important but often expensive process, especially with a large number of instances. This problem can be addressed by using a small training set, i.e. a surrogate… Click to show full abstract

Feature selection is an important but often expensive process, especially with a large number of instances. This problem can be addressed by using a small training set, i.e. a surrogate set. In this work, we propose to use a hierarchical clustering method to build various surrogate sets, which allows to analyze the effect of surrogate sets with different qualities and quantities on the feature subsets. Further, a dynamic surrogate model is proposed to automatically adjust surrogate sets for different datasets. Based on this idea, a feature selection system is developed using particle swarm optimization as the search mechanism. The experiments show that the hierarchical clustering method can build better surrogate sets to reduce the computational time, improve the feature selection performance, and alleviate overfitting. The dynamic method can automatically choose suitable surrogate sets to further improve the classification accuracy.

Keywords: feature selection; clustering; selection; pso surrogate; surrogate sets

Journal Title: Memetic Computing
Year Published: 2018

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