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Feature selection for ensembles has shown to be an effective strategy for ensemble creation due to its ability of producing good subsets of features, which make the classifiers of the ensemble disagree on difficult cases. In this paper we present an ensemble feature selection approach based on a hierarchical multi-objective genetic algorithm. The algorithm operates in two levels. Firstly, it performs feature selection in order to generate a set of classifiers and then it chooses the best team of classifiers. In order to show its robustness, the method is evaluated in two different contexts: supervised and unsupervised feature selection. In the former, we have considered the problem of handwritten digit recognition while in the latter, we took into account the problem of handwritten month word recognition. Experiments and comparisons with classical methods, such as Bagging and Boosting, demonstrated that the proposed methodology brings compelling improvements when classifiers have to work with very low error rates.
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Oliveira, L.S., Morita, M., Sabourin, R., Bortolozzi, F. (2005). Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms to Create Ensemble of Classifiers. In: Coello Coello, C.A., Hernández Aguirre, A., Zitzler, E. (eds) Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. EMO 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31880-4_41
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