Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART B-CYBERNETICS
Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 207-212Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/3477.990877
Keywords
curse of dimensionality; feature selection; neural networks (NNs); wrapper model
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This paper presents a novel feature selection approach for backprop neural networks (NNs). Previously, a feature selection technique known as the wrapper model was shown effective for decision trees induction. However, it is prohibitively expensive when applied to real-world neural net training characterized by large volumes of data and many feature choices. Our approach incorporates a weight analysis-based heuristic called artificial neural net input gain measurement approximation (ANNIGMA) to direct the search in the wrapper model and allows effective feature selection feasible for neural net applications. Experimental results on standard datasets show that this approach can efficiently reduce the number of features while maintaining or even improving the accuracy. We also report two successful applications of our approach in the helicopter maintenance applications.
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