IEEE Access (Jan 2018)

An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization

  • Huijun Peng,
  • Chun Ying,
  • Shuhua Tan,
  • Bing Hu,
  • Zhixin Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2879583
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6
pp. 69203 – 69209

Abstract

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The diversity and complexity of network data bring great challenges to data classification technology. Feature selection has always been an important and difficult problem in classification technology. To improve the classification performance of the classifier, an improved feature selection algorithm, FACO, is proposed by combining the ant colony optimization algorithm and feature selection. A fitness function is designed, and the pheromone updating rule is optimized to effectively eliminate redundant features and prevent feature selection from falling into a local optimum. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of the classifier can be significantly improved by selecting the data features using the FACO algorithm, which is of practical significance.

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