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Feature weighting using neural networks


Abstract:

We propose a feature weighting method for classification tasks by extracting relevant information from a trained neural network. This method weights an attribute based on...Show More

Abstract:

We propose a feature weighting method for classification tasks by extracting relevant information from a trained neural network. This method weights an attribute based on strengths (weights) of related links in the neural network, in which an important feature is typically connected to strong links and has more impact on the outputs. This method is applied to feature weighting for the nearest neighbor classifier and is tested on 15 real-world classification tasks. The results show that it can improve the nearest neighbor classifier on 14 of the 15 tested tasks, and also outperforms the neural network on 9 tasks.
Date of Conference: 25-29 July 2004
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 17 January 2005
Print ISBN:0-7803-8359-1
Print ISSN: 1098-7576
Conference Location: Budapest, Hungary

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