Feature selection based on a new dependency measure

Chaofeng Sha, Xipeng Qiu, Aoying Zhou

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Abstract

Feature selection is a process commonly used in machine learning, wherein a subset of the features available from the data are selected for application of a learning algorithm. Feature selection is effective in reducing dimensionality, removing irrelevant data, increasing learning accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new information distance to measure the relevancy of two features. Unlike the information measure in previous feature selection works, our proposed information distance meets the condition of triangle inequality. We use InfoDist to feature selection and the experimental results showed it has a better performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2008
Pages266-270
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2008 - Jinan, Shandong, China
Duration: 18 Oct 200820 Oct 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2008
Volume1

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityJinan, Shandong
Period18/10/0820/10/08

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