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Floating search methods in feature selection

Pavel Pudil, +2 more
- 01 Nov 1994 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 11, pp 1119-1125
TLDR
Sequential search methods characterized by a dynamically changing number of features included or eliminated at each step, henceforth "floating" methods, are presented and are shown to give very good results and to be computationally more effective than the branch and bound method.
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This article is published in Pattern Recognition Letters.The article was published on 1994-11-01. It has received 3104 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beam search & Jump search.

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A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Feature Subset Selection

TL;DR: In this paper, a branch and bound-based feature subset selection algorithm is proposed to select the best subset of m features from an n-feature set without exhaustive search, which is computationally computationally unfeasible.
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A note on genetic algorithms for large-scale feature selection

TL;DR: The preliminary results suggest that GA is a powerful means of reducing the time for finding near-optimal subsets of features from large sets.
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A Direct Method of Nonparametric Measurement Selection

TL;DR: A direct method of measurement selection is proposed to determine the best subset of d measurements out of a set of D total measurements, using a nonparametric estimate of the probability of error given a finite design sample set.
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On the effectiveness of receptors in recognition systems

TL;DR: Some of the theoretical problems encountered in trying to determine a more formal measure of the effectiveness of a set of tests are discussed; a measure which might be a practical substitute for the empirical evaluation.
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On automatic feature selection

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of feature selection for multidimensional pattern classification is presented, and the potential benefits of Monte Carlo approaches such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms are compared.
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