Binary Multi-Objective Grey Wolf Optimizer for Feature Selection in Classification

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Al-Tashi, Qasem
Abdulkadir, Said Jadid
Rais, Helmi Md
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Alhussian, Hitham
Ragab, Mohammed G
Alqushaibi, Alawi
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2020
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Feature selection or dimensionality reduction can be considered as a multi-objective minimization problem with two objectives: minimizing the number of features and minimizing the error rate simultaneously. Despite being a multi-objective problem, most existing approaches treat feature selection as a single-objective optimization problem. Recently, Multi-objective Grey Wolf optimizer (MOGWO) was proposed to solve multi-objective optimization problem. However, MOGWO was originally designed for continuous optimization problems and hence, it cannot be utilized directly to solve multi-objective feature selection problems which are inherently discrete in nature. Therefore, in this research, a binary version of MOGWO based on sigmoid transfer function called BMOGW-S is developed to optimize feature selection problems. A wrapper based Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used to assess the classification performance of a subset of selected features. To validate the performance of the proposed method, 15 standard benchmark datasets from the UCI repository are employed. The proposed BMOGWO-S was compared with MOGWO with a tanh transfer function and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) and Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO). The results showed that the proposed BMOGWO-S can effectively determine a set of non-dominated solutions. The proposed method outperforms the existing multi-objective approaches in most cases in terms of features reduction as well as classification error rate while benefiting from a lower computational cost.

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© The Author(s) 2020. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Al-Tashi, Q; Abdulkadir, SJ; Rais, HM; Mirjalili, S; Alhussian, H; Ragab, MG; Alqushaibi, A, Binary Multi-Objective Grey Wolf Optimizer for Feature Selection in Classification, IEEE Access, 2020, 8, pp. 106247-106263

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