Title
Feature evaluation and selection with cooperative game theory
Abstract
Recent years, various information theoretic based measurements have been proposed to remove redundant features from high-dimensional data set as many as possible. However, most traditional Information-theoretic based selectors will ignore some features which have strong discriminatory power as a group but are weak as individuals. To cope with this problem, this paper introduces a cooperative game theory based framework to evaluate the power of each feature. The power can be served as a metric of the importance of each feature according to the intricate and intrinsic interrelation among features. Then a general filter feature selection scheme is presented based on the introduced framework to handle the feature selection problem. To verify the effectiveness of our method, experimental comparisons with several other existing feature selection methods on fifteen UCI data sets are carried out using four typical classifiers. The results show that the proposed algorithm achieves better results than other methods in most cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.patcog.2012.02.001
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
redundant feature,high-dimensional data,feature selection problem,better result,existing feature selection method,strong discriminatory power,fifteen uci data set,feature evaluation,general filter feature selection,proposed algorithm,cooperative game theory,machine learning,feature selection
Data mining,Data set,Pattern recognition,Feature selection,Feature (computer vision),Feature evaluation,Cooperative game theory,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
8
0031-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
1.01
45
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Sun127717.12
Yanheng Liu222836.14
Jin Li3481.73
Jianqi Zhu4625.74
Hui-Ling Chen565526.09
Xue-jie Liu6504.49