Feature Selection(FS)is considered as an important preprocessing step in data mining and is used to remove redundant or unrelated features from high-dimensional data.Most optimization algorithms for FS problems are no...Feature Selection(FS)is considered as an important preprocessing step in data mining and is used to remove redundant or unrelated features from high-dimensional data.Most optimization algorithms for FS problems are not balanced in search.A hybrid algorithm called nonlinear binary grasshopper whale optimization algorithm(NL-BGWOA)is proposed to solve the problem in this paper.In the proposed method,a new position updating strategy combining the position changes of whales and grasshoppers population is expressed,which optimizes the diversity of searching in the target domain.Ten distinct high-dimensional UCI datasets,the multi-modal Parkinson's speech datasets,and the COVID-19 symptom dataset are used to validate the proposed method.It has been demonstrated that the proposed NL-BGWOA performs well across most of high-dimensional datasets,which shows a high accuracy rate of up to 0.9895.Furthermore,the experimental results on the medical datasets also demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method in actual FS problem,including accuracy,size of feature subsets,and fitness with best values of 0.913,5.7,and 0.0873,respectively.The results reveal that the proposed NL-BGWOA has comprehensive superiority in solving the FS problem of high-dimensional data.展开更多
基金supported by Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grant 2021-MS-272Educational Committee project of Liaoning Province under Grant LJKQZ2021088.
文摘Feature Selection(FS)is considered as an important preprocessing step in data mining and is used to remove redundant or unrelated features from high-dimensional data.Most optimization algorithms for FS problems are not balanced in search.A hybrid algorithm called nonlinear binary grasshopper whale optimization algorithm(NL-BGWOA)is proposed to solve the problem in this paper.In the proposed method,a new position updating strategy combining the position changes of whales and grasshoppers population is expressed,which optimizes the diversity of searching in the target domain.Ten distinct high-dimensional UCI datasets,the multi-modal Parkinson's speech datasets,and the COVID-19 symptom dataset are used to validate the proposed method.It has been demonstrated that the proposed NL-BGWOA performs well across most of high-dimensional datasets,which shows a high accuracy rate of up to 0.9895.Furthermore,the experimental results on the medical datasets also demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method in actual FS problem,including accuracy,size of feature subsets,and fitness with best values of 0.913,5.7,and 0.0873,respectively.The results reveal that the proposed NL-BGWOA has comprehensive superiority in solving the FS problem of high-dimensional data.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.60973059 and 81171407)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University,China(No.NCET-10-0044)
