An Improved Normalized Mutual Information Variable Selection Algorithm for Neural Network-Based Soft Sensors

doi:10.3390/s19245368

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An Improved Normalized Mutual Information Variable Selection Algorithm for Neural Network-Based Soft Sensors

2019-12-05

DOI：10.3390/s19245368

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In this paper, normalized mutual information feature selection (NMIFS) and tabu search (TS) are integrated to develop a new variable selection algorithm for soft sensors. NMIFS is applied to select influential variables contributing to the output variable and avoids selecting redundant variables by calculating mutual information (MI). A TS based strategy is designed to prevent NMIFS from falling into a local optimal solution. The proposed algorithm performs the variable selection by combining the entropy information and MI and validating error information of artificial neural networks (ANNs); therefore, it has advantages over previous MI-based variable selection algorithms. Several simulation datasets with different scales, correlations and noise parameters are implemented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm. A set of actual production data from a power plant is also used to check the performance of these algorithms. The experiments showed that the developed variable selection algorithm presents better model accuracy with fewer selected variables, compared with other state-of-the-art methods. The application of this algorithm to soft sensors can achieve reliable results.

Keywords:

soft sensor

variable selection

neural network

mutual information

tabu search

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