Title
Ensemble mutation slime mould algorithm with restart mechanism for feature selection
Abstract
Existing data acquisition technologies desire further improvement to meet the increasing need for big, accurate, and high-quality data collection. Most of the collected data have redundant information such as noise. To improve the classification accuracy, the dimensionality reduction technique, which is also known as the feature selection, is a necessity for data processing. In this paper, the slime mould algorithm (SMA) is optimized by introducing the composite mutation strategy (CMS) and restart strategy (RS). The improved SMA is named CMSRSSMA, which stands for the CMS, RS, and the improved SMA. The CMS is utilized to increase the population diversity, and the RS is used to avoid the local optimum. In this paper, the CEC2017 benchmark function is used to test the effectiveness of the proposed CMSRSSMA. Then, the CMSRSSMA-SVM model is proposed for feature selection and parameter optimization simultaneously. The performance of the model is tested by 14 data sets from UCI data repository. Experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to other algorithms in terms of classification accuracy, number of features and fitness value on most selected data sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1002/int.22776
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
composite mutation strategy, feature selection, restart strategy, slime mould algorithm, support vector machine
Journal
37
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0884-8173
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heming Jia110.35
Wanying Zhang210.35
Rong Zheng310.35
Shuang Wang410.35
Xin Leng510.35
Ning Cao610.68