Improved WOA and its application in feature selection.

Autor: Wei Liu, Zhiqing Guo, Feng Jiang, Guangwei Liu, Dong Wang, Zishun Ni
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 5, p e0267041 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267041
Popis: Feature selection (FS) can eliminate many redundant, irrelevant, and noisy features in high-dimensional data to improve machine learning or data mining models' prediction, classification, and computational performance. We proposed an improved whale optimization algorithm (IWOA) and improved k-nearest neighbors (IKNN) classifier approaches for feature selection (IWOAIKFS). Firstly, WOA is improved by using chaotic elite reverse individual, probability selection of skew distribution, nonlinear adjustment of control parameters and position correction strategy to enhance the search performance of the algorithm for feature subsets. Secondly, the sample similarity measurement criterion and weighted voting criterion based on the simulated annealing algorithm to solve the weight matrix M are proposed to improve the KNN classifier and improve the evaluation performance of the algorithm on feature subsets. The experimental results show: IWOA not only has better optimization performance when solving benchmark functions of different dimensions, but also when used with IKNN for feature selection, IWOAIKFS has better classification and robustness.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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