TY - GEN
T1 - Evolutionary based feature extraction with dynamic mutation
AU - Ahn, Eun Yeong
AU - Mullen, Tracy
AU - Yen, John
PY - 2011/8/29
Y1 - 2011/8/29
N2 - Determining a good feature set is critical to the performance of learning algorithms such as classifiers. Recently, researchers have proposed evolutionary-based feature extraction methods that aim to find a good feature set by combining the original features with new features generated by mathematical transformations of the original features. In this paper, we propose dynamically collecting past performance information on promising features and operators to use in our mutation method. We consider how to make our evolutionary algorithm more efficient and reliable by reducing overfitting. Preliminary results using UCI data show that our dynamic mutation method only slightly enhances the classification accuracy but it produces more reliable results.
AB - Determining a good feature set is critical to the performance of learning algorithms such as classifiers. Recently, researchers have proposed evolutionary-based feature extraction methods that aim to find a good feature set by combining the original features with new features generated by mathematical transformations of the original features. In this paper, we propose dynamically collecting past performance information on promising features and operators to use in our mutation method. We consider how to make our evolutionary algorithm more efficient and reliable by reducing overfitting. Preliminary results using UCI data show that our dynamic mutation method only slightly enhances the classification accuracy but it produces more reliable results.
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U2 - 10.1109/CEC.2011.5949647
DO - 10.1109/CEC.2011.5949647
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051972296
SN - 9781424478347
T3 - 2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011
SP - 409
EP - 416
BT - 2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011
Y2 - 5 June 2011 through 8 June 2011
ER -