A fast Branch-and-Bound algorithm for U-curve feature selection

Autor(es)

Atashpaz-Gargari, Esmaeil ^{[1, 2]} ; Reis, Marcelo S. ^[3] ; Braga-Neto, Ulisses M. ^{[1, 4]} ; Barrera, Junior ^[5] ; Dougherty, Edward R. ^{[1, 4]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, College Stn, TX 77843 - USA

^[2] Natl Univ, Sch Engn & Comp, San Diego, CA - USA

^[3] LECC, Inst Butantan, Ctr Toxins Immune Response & Cell Signaling CeTIC, Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[4] TEES, Ctr Bioinformat & Genom Syst Engn, College Stn, TX - USA

^[5] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Math & Stat, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: PATTERN RECOGNITION; v. 73, p. 172-188, JAN 2018.
• Citações Web of Science: 3

Resumo

We introduce a fast Branch-and-Bound algorithm for optimal feature selection based on a U-curve assumption for the cost function. The U-curve assumption, which is based on the peaking phenomenon of the classification error, postulates that the cost over the chains of the Boolean lattice that represents the search space describes a U-shaped curve. The proposed algorithm is an improvement over the original algorithm for U-curve feature selection introduced recently. Extensive simulation experiments are carried out to assess the performance of the proposed algorithm (IUBB), comparing it to the original algorithm (UBB), as well as exhaustive search and Generalized Sequential Forward Search. The results show that the IUBB algorithm makes fewer evaluations and achieves better solutions under a fixed computational budget. We also show that the IUBB algorithm is robust with respect to violations of the U-curve assumption. We investigate the application of the IUBB algorithm in the design of imaging W-operators and in classification feature selection, using the average mean conditional entropy (MCE) as the cost function for the search. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/07467-1 - CeTICS - Centro de Toxinas, Imuno-Resposta e Sinalização Celular
• Beneficiário: Hugo Aguirre Armelin
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Centros de Pesquisa, Inovação e Difusão - CEPIDs
• Processo FAPESP: 15/01587-0 - Armazenagem, modelagem e análise de sistemas dinâmicos para aplicações em e-Science
• Beneficiário: João Eduardo Ferreira
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa eScience e Data Science - Temático