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Two-stage improved Grey Wolf optimization algorithm for feature selection on high-dimensional classification by Chaonan Shen; Kai Zhang is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.

## Abstract In recent years, evolutionary algorithms have shown great advantages in the field of feature selection because of their simplicity and potential global search capability. However, most of the existing feature selection algorithms based on evolutionary computation are wrapper methods, which are computationally expensive, especially for high-dimensional biomedical data. To significantly reduce the computational cost, it is essential to study an effective evaluation method. In this paper, a two-stage improved gray wolf optimization (IGWO) algorithm for feature selection on high-dimensional data is proposed. In the first stage, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) network with group lasso regularization terms is first trained to construct an integer optimization problem using the proposed algorithm for pre-selection of features and optimization of the hidden layer structure. The dataset is compressed using the feature subset obtained in the first stage. In the second stage, a multilayer perceptron network with group lasso regularization terms is retrained using the compressed dataset, and the proposed algorithm is employed to construct the discrete optimization problem for feature

Author

Chaonan Shen; Kai Zhang

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)