Affiliations: [a] School of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
| [b] School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
| [c] Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex System, Guilin University of ElectronicTechnology, Guilin, China
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Corresponding author. Yun Li, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. E-mail: liyun@njupt.edu.cn.
Note: [1] This research was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 61603197, 61772284), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20140885), NUPTSF (NY214127) and Foundation of Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing & Complex System (15206)
Abstract: Feature selection is one of the key problems in machine learning and data mining. It involves identifying a subset of the most useful features that produces compatible results as the original entire set of features. It can reduce the dimensionality of original data, speed up the learning process and build comprehensible learning models with good generalization performance. Nowadays, ensemble idea has been used to improve the performance of feature selection by integrating multiple base feature selection models into an ensemble one. In this paper, in order to improve the efficiency of feature selection in dealing with large scale, high dimension and imbalanced problems, a Min-Max Ensemble Feature Selection (M2-EFS) is proposed, which is based on balanced data partition and min-max ensemble strategy. The experimental results demonstrate that the M2-EFS can obtain higher performance than other classical ensemble methods in most cases, especially for large scale, high dimension and imbalanced data.
Keywords: Feature selection, Min-Max strategy, ensemble, data partition
