Title
Multivariate Feature Ranking With High-Dimensional Data for Classification Tasks
Abstract
In many machine learning classification problems, datasets are usually of high dimensionality and therefore require efficient and effective methods for identifying the relative importance of their attributes, eliminating the redundant and irrelevant ones. Due to the huge size of the search space of the possible solutions, the attribute subset evaluation feature selection methods are not very suitable, so in these scenarios feature ranking methods are used. Most of the feature ranking methods described in the literature are univariate methods, which do not detect interactions between factors. In this paper, we propose two new multivariate feature ranking methods based on pairwise correlation and pairwise consistency, which have been applied for cancer gene expression and genotype-tissue expression classification tasks using public datasets. We statistically proved that the proposed methods outperform the state-of-the-art feature ranking methods Clustering Variation, Chi Squared, Correlation, Information Gain, ReliefF and Significance, as well as other feature selection methods for attribute subset evaluation based on correlation and consistency with the multi-objective evolutionary search strategy, and with the embedded feature selection methods C4.5 and LASSO. The proposed methods have been implemented on the WEKA platform for public use, making all the results reported in this paper repeatable and replicable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3180773
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Germanium, Task analysis, Feature extraction, Predictive models, Metaheuristics, Correlation, Support vector machines, High-dimensional data, classification, feature ranking, feature selection, machine learning, correlation, consistency
Journal
10
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F. Jiménez127226.59
Gracia Sanchez200.34
José Palma312014.28
Luis Miralles-Pechuan400.34
Juan A. Botía537035.47