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The feature selection consists of obtaining a subset of these features to optimally realize the task without the irrelevant ones. Since it can provide faster and cost-effective learning machines and also improve the prediction performance of the predictors, it is a crucial step in machine learning. The feature selection methods using support machines have obtained satisfactory results, but the noises and outliers often reduce the performance. In this paper, we propose a feature selection approach using fuzzy support vector machines and compare it with the previous work, the results of experiments on the UCI data sets show that feature selection using fuzzy SVM obtains better results than using SVM.
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Xia, H., Hu, B.Q. Feature Selection using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines. Fuzzy Optim Decis Making 5, 187–192 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10700-006-7336-8
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