scholarly journals A Bootstrap Framework for Aggregating within and between Feature Selection Methods

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Reem Salman ◽  
Ayman Alzaatreh ◽  
Hana Sulieman ◽  
Shaimaa Faisal
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Aggregation Method ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
Multiple Feature ◽  
Multiple Domains ◽  
And Control ◽  
Feature Selection Techniques

In the past decade, big data has become increasingly prevalent in a large number of applications. As a result, datasets suffering from noise and redundancy issues have necessitated the use of feature selection across multiple domains. However, a common concern in feature selection is that different approaches can give very different results when applied to similar datasets. Aggregating the results of different selection methods helps to resolve this concern and control the diversity of selected feature subsets. In this work, we implemented a general framework for the ensemble of multiple feature selection methods. Based on diversified datasets generated from the original set of observations, we aggregated the importance scores generated by multiple feature selection techniques using two methods: the Within Aggregation Method (WAM), which refers to aggregating importance scores within a single feature selection; and the Between Aggregation Method (BAM), which refers to aggregating importance scores between multiple feature selection methods. We applied the proposed framework on 13 real datasets with diverse performances and characteristics. The experimental evaluation showed that WAM provides an effective tool for determining the best feature selection method for a given dataset. WAM has also shown greater stability than BAM in terms of identifying important features. The computational demands of the two methods appeared to be comparable. The results of this work suggest that by applying both WAM and BAM, practitioners can gain a deeper understanding of the feature selection process.

Predicting the Severity of Bug Reports Based on Feature Selection

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 537-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjie Liu ◽  
Shanshan Wang ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
He Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Software Maintenance ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Selection Algorithm ◽  
Feature Selection Algorithm ◽  
Bug Reports ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
Bug Report ◽  
Severity Prediction

In software maintenance process, it is a fairly important activity to predict the severity of bug reports. However, manually identifying the severity of bug reports is a tedious and time-consuming task. So developing automatic judgment methods for predicting the severity of bug reports has become an urgent demand. In general, a bug report contains a lot of descriptive natural language texts, thus resulting in a high-dimensional feature set which poses serious challenges to traditionally automatic methods. Therefore, we attempt to use automatic feature selection methods to improve the performance of the severity prediction of bug reports. In this paper, we introduce a ranking-based strategy to improve existing feature selection algorithms and propose an ensemble feature selection algorithm by combining existing ones. In order to verify the performance of our method, we run experiments over the bug reports of Eclipse and Mozilla and conduct comparisons with eight commonly used feature selection methods. The experiment results show that the ranking-based strategy can effectively improve the performance of the severity prediction of bug reports by up to 54.76% on average in terms of [Formula: see text]-measure, and it also can significantly reduce the dimension of the feature set. Meanwhile, the ensemble feature selection method can get better results than a single feature selection algorithm.

Multi-objective Cuckoo Search-based Streaming Feature Selection for Multi-label Dataset

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Dipanjyoti Paul ◽  
Rahul Kumar ◽  
Sriparna Saha ◽  
Jimson Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Cuckoo Search ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Social Media Networks

The feature selection method is the process of selecting only relevant features by removing irrelevant or redundant features amongst the large number of features that are used to represent data. Nowadays, many application domains especially social media networks, generate new features continuously at different time stamps. In such a scenario, when the features are arriving in an online fashion, to cope up with the continuous arrival of features, the selection task must also have to be a continuous process. Therefore, the streaming feature selection based approach has to be incorporated, i.e., every time a new feature or a group of features arrives, the feature selection process has to be invoked. Again, in recent years, there are many application domains that generate data where samples may belong to more than one classes called multi-label dataset. The multiple labels that the instances are being associated with, may have some dependencies amongst themselves. Finding the co-relation amongst the class labels helps to select the discriminative features across multiple labels. In this article, we develop streaming feature selection methods for multi-label data where the multiple labels are reduced to a lower-dimensional space. The similar labels are grouped together before performing the selection method to improve the selection quality and to make the model time efficient. The multi-objective version of the cuckoo search-based approach is used to select the optimal feature set. The proposed method develops two versions of the streaming feature selection method: ) when the features arrive individually and ) when the features arrive in the form of a batch. Various multi-label datasets from various domains such as text, biology, and audio have been used to test the developed streaming feature selection methods. The proposed methods are compared with many previous feature selection methods and from the comparison, the superiority of using multiple objectives and label co-relation in the feature selection process can be established.

COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE FEATURE SELECTION METHODS FOR TEXT CATEGORIZATION BY USING COMBINATORIAL FUSION ANALYSIS AND RANK-SCORE CHARACTERISTIC

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (02) ◽  
pp. 1350001 ◽  
Author(s):  
YANJUN LI ◽  
D. FRANK HSU ◽  
SOON M. CHUNG
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Categorization ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Score Function ◽  
Individual Feature ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Multiple Feature ◽  
Rank Score ◽  
Combinatorial Fusion ◽  
Fusion Analysis

Effective feature selection methods are important for improving the efficiency and accuracy of text categorization algorithms by removing redundant and irrelevant terms from the corpus. Extensive research has been done to improve the performance of individual feature selection methods. However, it is always a challenge to come up with an individual feature selection method which would outperform other methods in most cases. In this paper, we explore the possibility of improving the overall performance by combining multiple individual feature selection methods. In particular, we propose a method of combining multiple feature selection methods by using an information fusion paradigm, called Combinatorial Fusion Analysis (CFA). A rank-score function and its associated graph, called rank-score graph, are adopted to measure the diversity of different feature selection methods. Our experimental results demonstrated that a combination of multiple feature selection methods can outperform a single method only if each individual feature selection method has unique scoring behavior and relatively high performance. Moreover, it is shown that the rank-score function and rank-score graph are useful for the selection of a combination of feature selection methods.

The Effectiveness of the Fused Weighted Filter Feature Selection Method to Improve Software Fault Prediction

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Alighardashi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Zare Chahooki
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Fault Prediction ◽  
Filter Method ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Fault Prediction ◽  
Software Fault

Improving the software product quality before releasing by periodic tests is one of the most expensive activities in software projects. Due to limited resources to modules test in software projects, it is important to identify fault-prone modules and use the test sources for fault prediction in these modules. Software fault predictors based on machine learning algorithms, are effective tools for identifying fault-prone modules. Extensive studies are being done in this field to find the connection between features of software modules, and their fault-prone. Some of features in predictive algorithms are ineffective and reduce the accuracy of prediction process. So, feature selection methods to increase performance of prediction models in fault-prone modules are widely used. In this study, we proposed a feature selection method for effective selection of features, by using combination of filter feature selection methods. In the proposed filter method, the combination of several filter feature selection methods presented as fused weighed filter method. Then, the proposed method caused convergence rate of feature selection as well as the accuracy improvement. The obtained results on NASA and PROMISE with ten datasets, indicates the effectiveness of proposed method in improvement of accuracy and convergence of software fault prediction.

A lazy feature selection method for multi-label classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Rafael B. Pereira ◽  
Alexandre Plastino ◽  
Bianca Zadrozny ◽  
Luiz H.C. Merschmann
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Categorization ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Video Classification ◽  
Classification Problems ◽  
Class Label ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Feature Selection Techniques ◽  
Biomolecular Analysis

In many important application domains, such as text categorization, biomolecular analysis, scene or video classification and medical diagnosis, instances are naturally associated with more than one class label, giving rise to multi-label classification problems. This has led, in recent years, to a substantial amount of research in multi-label classification. More specifically, feature selection methods have been developed to allow the identification of relevant and informative features for multi-label classification. This work presents a new feature selection method based on the lazy feature selection paradigm and specific for the multi-label context. Experimental results show that the proposed technique is competitive when compared to multi-label feature selection techniques currently used in the literature, and is clearly more scalable, in a scenario where there is an increasing amount of data.

A fuzzy gaussian rank aggregation ensemble feature selection method for microarray data

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-301
Author(s):  
B. Venkatesh ◽  
J. Anuradha
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Microarray Data ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Binary Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Selection Methods

In Microarray Data, it is complicated to achieve more classification accuracy due to the presence of high dimensions, irrelevant and noisy data. And also It had more gene expression data and fewer samples. To increase the classification accuracy and the processing speed of the model, an optimal number of features need to extract, this can be achieved by applying the feature selection method. In this paper, we propose a hybrid ensemble feature selection method. The proposed method has two phases, filter and wrapper phase in filter phase ensemble technique is used for aggregating the feature ranks of the Relief, minimum redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR), and Feature Correlation (FC) filter feature selection methods. This paper uses the Fuzzy Gaussian membership function ordering for aggregating the ranks. In wrapper phase, Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (IBPSO) is used for selecting the optimal features, and the RBF Kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is used as an evaluator. The performance of the proposed model are compared with state of art feature selection methods using five benchmark datasets. For evaluation various performance metrics such as Accuracy, Recall, Precision, and F1-Score are used. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method outperforms the other feature selection methods.

scholarly journals Constructing an Emotion Estimation Model Based on EEG/HRV Indexes Using Feature Extraction and Feature Selection Algorithms

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 2910
Author(s):  
Kei Suzuki ◽  
Tipporn Laohakangvalvit ◽  
Ryota Matsubara ◽  
Midori Sugaya
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Features Selection ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Physiological Indexes ◽  
Emotion Estimation

In human emotion estimation using an electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV), there are two main issues as far as we know. The first is that measurement devices for physiological signals are expensive and not easy to wear. The second is that unnecessary physiological indexes have not been removed, which is likely to decrease the accuracy of machine learning models. In this study, we used single-channel EEG sensor and photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, which are inexpensive and easy to wear. We collected data from 25 participants (18 males and 7 females) and used a deep learning algorithm to construct an emotion classification model based on Arousal–Valence space using several feature combinations obtained from physiological indexes selected based on our criteria including our proposed feature selection methods. We then performed accuracy verification, applying a stratified 10-fold cross-validation method to the constructed models. The results showed that model accuracies are as high as 90% to 99% by applying the features selection methods we proposed, which suggests that a small number of physiological indexes, even from inexpensive sensors, can be used to construct an accurate emotion classification model if an appropriate feature selection method is applied. Our research results contribute to the improvement of an emotion classification model with a higher accuracy, less cost, and that is less time consuming, which has the potential to be further applied to various areas of applications.

scholarly journals Automated Feature Selection and Classification for High-Dimensional Biomedical Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammo P.A. Beishuizen ◽  
Joaquin Vanschoren ◽  
Peter A.J. Hilbers ◽  
Dragan Bošnački
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
Automated Machine Learning ◽  
Feature Selection Techniques ◽  
Best Fit

Abstract Background: Automated machine learning aims to automate the building of accurate predictive models, including the creation of complex data preprocessing pipelines. Although successful in many fields, they struggle to produce good results on biomedical datasets, especially given the high dimensionality of the data. Result: In this paper, we explore the automation of feature selection in these scenarios. We analyze which feature selection techniques are ideally included in an automated system, determine how to efficiently find the ones that best fit a given dataset, integrate this into an existing AutoML tool (TPOT), and evaluate it on four very different yet representative types of biomedical data: microarray, mass spectrometry, clinical and survey datasets. We focus on feature selection rather than latent feature generation since we often want to explain the model predictions in terms of the intrinsic features of the data. Conclusion: Our experiments show that for none of these datasets we need more than 200 features to accurately explain the output. Additional features did not increase the quality significantly. We also find that the automated machine learning results are significantly improved after adding additional feature selection methods and prior knowledge on how to select and tune them.

scholarly journals Incorporating Pathway Information into Feature Selection towards Better Performed Gene Signatures

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suyan Tian ◽  
Chi Wang ◽  
Bing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Gene Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Its Gene ◽  
Active Research

To analyze gene expression data with sophisticated grouping structures and to extract hidden patterns from such data, feature selection is of critical importance. It is well known that genes do not function in isolation but rather work together within various metabolic, regulatory, and signaling pathways. If the biological knowledge contained within these pathways is taken into account, the resulting method is a pathway-based algorithm. Studies have demonstrated that a pathway-based method usually outperforms its gene-based counterpart in which no biological knowledge is considered. In this article, a pathway-based feature selection is firstly divided into three major categories, namely, pathway-level selection, bilevel selection, and pathway-guided gene selection. With bilevel selection methods being regarded as a special case of pathway-guided gene selection process, we discuss pathway-guided gene selection methods in detail and the importance of penalization in such methods. Last, we point out the potential utilizations of pathway-guided gene selection in one active research avenue, namely, to analyze longitudinal gene expression data. We believe this article provides valuable insights for computational biologists and biostatisticians so that they can make biology more computable.

scholarly journals Optimizing Filter-Based Feature Selection Method Flow for Intrusion Detection System

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2114
Author(s):  
Murtaza Ahmed Siddiqi ◽  
Wooguil Pak
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Intrusion Detection ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Process Flow

In recent times, with the advancement in technology and revolution in digital information, networks generate massive amounts of data. Due to the massive and rapid transmission of data, keeping up with security requirements is becoming more challenging. Machine learning (ML)-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are considered as one of the most suitable solutions for big data security. Despite the progress in ML, unrelated features can drastically influence the performance of an IDS. Feature selection plays a significant role in improving ML-based IDSs. However, the recent growth of dimensionality in data poses quite a challenge for current feature selection and extraction methods. Due to high data dimensionality, feature selection methods suffer in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. In this paper, we are introducing a new process flow for filter-based feature selection with the help of a transformation technique. Generally, normalization or transformation is implemented before classification. In our proposed model, we implemented and evaluated the effects of normalization before feature selection. To present a clear analysis on the effects of power transformation, five different transformations were implemented and evaluated. Furthermore, we implemented and compared different feature selection methods with the proposed process flow. Results show that compared with existing process flow and feature selection methods, our proposed process flow for feature selection can locate a more relevant set of features with high efficiency and accuracy.

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