Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 2019, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 127-132.doi: 10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-151

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A Fast Feature Selection Framework and Method

QIU Li-ke1, LIU Jing2, SUN Zhong-wei3, ZHAO Yang-fan4   

  1. 1. Information Management Department, Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College, Qingdao 266100, China;
    2. Science and Information College, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266100, China;
    3. School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266100, China;
    4. Comprehensive Planning Office, Shandong Qingdao Tobacco Copany Limited, Qingdao 266100, China
  • Received:2018-07-04 Online:2019-06-28 Published:2019-06-20

Abstract: Aiming at the imbalance between accuracy and computational efficiency in feature selection, a fast feature selection framework (FFFS) is proposed. Based on this framework, a fast feature selection algorithm, MRMR-SFS, is proposed. The minimum redundancy maximum relevance (MRMR) method is used to select the candidate features, and sequential forward selection (SFS) method is used to verify the performance of the candidate features as well. It improves the calculation efficiency by limiting the number of iterations. Comparison experiments with the MRMR, SFS and a filter-dominating hybrid sequential floating forward selection algorithms demonstrate that MRMR-SFS can balance the accuracy and computational efficiency well.

Key words: feature selection, filter, wrapper, hybrid, performance prediction, correlation coefficient

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