A Novel Feature Selection Method Based on Extreme Learning Machine and Fractional-Order Darwinian PSO.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

The paper presents a novel approach for feature selection based on extreme learning machine (ELM) and Fractional-order Darwinian particle swarm optimization (FODPSO) for regression problems. The proposed method constructs a fitness function by calculating mean square error (MSE) acquired from ELM. And the optimal solution of the fitness function is searched by an improved particle swarm optimization, FODPSO. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, comparative experiments with other relative methods are conducted in seven public datasets. The proposed method obtains six lowest MSE values among all the comparative methods. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method has the superiority of getting lower MSE with the same scale of feature subset or requiring smaller scale of feature subset for similar MSE.

Authors

  • Yuan-Yuan Wang
    Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
  • Huan Zhang
    Department of Plant Protection, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, 5 Hangzhou 310058, China.
  • Chen-Hui Qiu
    Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
  • Shun-Ren Xia
    Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.