access icon free An Incremental Algorithm to Feature Selection in Decision Systems with the Variation of Feature Set

Feature selection is a challenging problem in pattern recognition and machine learning. In real-life applications, feature set in the decision systems may vary over time. There are few studies on feature selection with the variation of feature set. This paper focuses on this issue, an incremental feature selection algorithm in dynamic decision systems is developed based on dependency function. The incremental algorithm avoids some recomputations, rather than retrain the dynamic decision system as new one to compute the feature subset from scratch. We firstly employ an incremental manner to update the new dependency function, then we incorporate the calculated dependency function into the incremental feature selection algorithm. Compared with the direct (non-incremental) algorithm, the computational efficiency of the proposed algorithm is improved. The experimental results on different data sets from UCI show that the proposed algorithm is effective and efficient.

Inspec keywords: learning (artificial intelligence); feature selection; decision theory; rough set theory

Other keywords: rough sets; feature set variation; dynamic decision system; machine learning; incremental algorithm; dependency function; pattern recognition; decision system; feature selection

Subjects: Pattern recognition; Game theory; Learning in AI (theory); Combinatorial mathematics

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/cje.2015.01.021
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