%D 2020
%A Q. Al-Tashi
%A S.J. Abdulkadir
%A H.M. Rais
%A S. Mirjalili
%A H. Alhussian
%A M.G. Ragab
%A A. Alqushaibi
%X Feature selection or dimensionality reduction can be considered as a multi-objective minimization problem with two objectives: minimizing the number of features and minimizing the error rate simultaneously. Despite being a multi-objective problem, most existing approaches treat feature selection as a single-objective optimization problem. Recently, Multi-objective Grey Wolf optimizer (MOGWO) was proposed to solve multi-objective optimization problem. However, MOGWO was originally designed for continuous optimization problems and hence, it cannot be utilized directly to solve multi-objective feature selection problems which are inherently discrete in nature. Therefore, in this research, a binary version of MOGWO based on sigmoid transfer function called BMOGW-S is developed to optimize feature selection problems. A wrapper based Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used to assess the classification performance of a subset of selected features. To validate the performance of the proposed method, 15 standard benchmark datasets from the UCI repository are employed. The proposed BMOGWO-S was compared with MOGWO with a tanh transfer function and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) and Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO). The results showed that the proposed BMOGWO-S can effectively determine a set of non-dominated solutions. The proposed method outperforms the existing multi-objective approaches in most cases in terms of features reduction as well as classification error rate while benefiting from a lower computational cost. © 2013 IEEE.
%O cited By 69
%L scholars13845
%K Benchmarking; Classification (of information); Dimensionality reduction; Feature extraction; Genetic algorithms; Neural networks; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Screening; Transfer functions, Classification performance; Continuous optimization problems; Feature selection problem; Multi objective particle swarm optimization; Multi-objective optimization problem; Non dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA II); Sigmoid transfer function; Single objective optimization problems, Multiobjective optimization
%R 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3000040
%V 8
%T Binary Multi-Objective Grey Wolf Optimizer for Feature Selection in Classification
%J IEEE Access
%P 106247-106263
%I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.