Summary of Distance-based Mutual Congestion Feature Selection with Genetic Algorithm For High-dimensional Medical Datasets, by Hossein Nematzadeh et al.
Distance-based mutual congestion feature selection with genetic algorithm for high-dimensional medical datasets
by Hossein Nematzadeh, Joseph Mani, Zahra Nematzadeh, Ebrahim Akbari, Radziah Mohamad
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers tackle the issue of feature selection in small-sample high-dimensional datasets, where the number of features exceeds the number of observations. They introduce a new method called Distance-based Mutual Congestion (DMC) that considers both feature values and distribution of observations in the response variable. DMC sorts features and retains the top 5%, which are then clustered by KMeans to mitigate multicollinearity. The selected features form the feature space, and a Genetic Algorithm with Adaptive Rates (GAwAR) approximates the combination of the top 10 features that maximizes prediction accuracy within a wrapper scheme. To prevent premature convergence, GAwAR adaptively updates the crossover and mutation rates. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of this hybrid DMC-GAwAR method over recent works. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding the most important features in small datasets with many variables. It’s like trying to find the most helpful clues when solving a mystery. The researchers developed a new way called Distance-based Mutual Congregation (DMC) that looks at both the values of each feature and how they relate to each other. They use this method to pick the top 5% of features, which helps reduce the problem of multiple important features being highly correlated. Then, they use another algorithm called Genetic Algorithm with Adaptive Rates (GAwAR) to find the combination of features that gives the best predictions. The results show that their new method is better than some other methods used in recent studies. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Feature selection
