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Non-unique decision differential entropy-based feature selection

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Yanpeng Qu *
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Rong Li
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Ansheng Deng
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Changjing Shang
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Qiang Shen
DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2018.10.112delete
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Feature selection plays an important role in reducing irrelevant and redundant features, while retaining the underlying semantics of selected ones. An effective feature selection method is expected to result in a significantly reduced subset of the original features without sacrificing the quality of problem-solving (e.g., classification). In this paper, a non-unique decision measure is proposed that captures the degree of a given feature subset being relevant to different categories. This helps to represent the uncertainty information in the boundary region of a granular model, such as rough sets or fuzzy-rough sets in an efficient manner. Based on this measure, the paper further introduce a differentiation entropy as an evaluator of feature subsets to implement a novel feature selection algorithm. The resulting feature selection method is capable of dealing with either nominal or real-valued data. Experimental results on both benchmark data sets and a real application problem demonstrate that the features selected by the proposed approach outperform those attained by state-of-the-art feature selection techniques, in terms of both the size of feature reduction and the classification accuracy. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Non-unique decision
Differentiation entropy
Feature selection
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