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Feature selection is a popular technology for reducing dimensionality. Commonly features are evaluated with univariate scores according to their classification abilities, and the high-score ones are preferred and selected. However, there are two flaws for this strategy. First, feature complementarity is ignored. A subspace constructed by the partially predominant but complementary features is suitable for recognition task, whereas this feature subset cannot be selected by this strategy. Second, feature redundancy for classification cannot be measured accurately. This redundancy weakens the subset’s discriminative performance, but it cannot be reduced by this strategy. In this paper, a new feature selection method is proposed. It assesses feature’s discriminative information for each class and vectorizes this information. Then, features are represented by their corresponding discriminative information vectors, and the most distinct ones are selected. Both feature complementarity and classification redundancy can be easily measured by comparing the differences between these new vectors. Experimental results on both low-dimensional and high-dimensional data testify the new method’s effectiveness.
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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61070089) and the Science Foundation of Tianjin (14JCYBJC15700).
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Wang, J., Xu, H., Wei, J. (2016). Feature Selection via Vectorizing Feature’s Discriminative Information. In: Li, F., Shim, K., Zheng, K., Liu, G. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9931. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45814-4_40
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