IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
27(3), P. 595 - 609
Published: May 16, 2022
With
the
increase
of
number
features
and
sample
size,
existing
feature
selection
(FS)
methods
based
on
evolutionary
optimization
still
face
challenges
such
as
"curse
dimensionality"
high
computational
cost.
In
view
this,
dividing
or
clustering
spaces
at
same
time,
this
article
proposes
a
hybrid
FS
algorithm
using
surrogate
sample-assisted
particle
swarm
(SS-PSO).
First,
nonrepetitive
uniform
sampling
strategy
is
employed
to
divide
whole
set
into
several
small-size
subsets.
Regarding
each
subset
unit,
next,
collaborative
mechanism
proposed
space,
with
purpose
reducing
both
cost
search
space
PSO.
Following
that,
an
ensemble
surrogate-assisted
integer
PSO
proposed.
To
ensure
prediction
accuracy
when
evaluating
particles,
construction
management
designed.
Since
replaced
by
small
units,
SS-PSO
significantly
reduces
particles
in
Finally,
applied
some
typical
datasets,
compared
six
algorithms,
well
its
variant
algorithms.
The
experimental
results
show
that
can
obtain
good
subsets
smallest
most
datasets.
All
verify
highly
competitive
method
for
high-dimensional
FS.
IEEE Access,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
10, P. 10031 - 10061
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Particle
swarm
optimization
(PSO)
is
one
of
the
most
well-regarded
swarm-based
algorithms
in
literature.
Although
original
PSO
has
shown
good
performance,
it
still
severely
suffers
from
premature
convergence.
As
a
result,
many
researchers
have
been
modifying
resulting
large
number
variants
with
either
slightly
or
significantly
better
performance.
Mainly,
standard
modified
by
four
main
strategies:
modification
controlling
parameters,
hybridizing
other
well-known
meta-heuristic
such
as
genetic
algorithm
(GA)
and
differential
evolution
(DE),
cooperation
multi-swarm
techniques.
This
paper
attempts
to
provide
comprehensive
review
PSO,
including
basic
concepts
binary
neighborhood
topologies
recent
historical
variants,
remarkable
engineering
applications
its
drawbacks.
Moreover,
this
reviews
studies
that
utilize
solve
feature
selection
problems.
Finally,
eight
potential
research
directions
can
help
further
enhance
performance
are
provided.
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
26(3), P. 446 - 460
Published: July 26, 2021
Feature
selection
(FS)
is
an
important
preprocessing
technique
for
improving
the
quality
of
feature
sets
in
many
practical
applications.
Particle
swarm
optimization
(PSO)
has
been
widely
used
FS
due
to
being
efficient
and
easy
implement.
However,
when
dealing
with
high-dimensional
data,
most
existing
PSO-based
approaches
face
problems
falling
into
local
optima
high-computational
cost.
Evolutionary
multitasking
effective
paradigm
enhance
global
search
capability
accelerate
convergence
by
knowledge
transfer
among
related
tasks.
Inspired
evolutionary
multitasking,
this
article
proposes
a
PSO
approach
FS.
The
converts
task
several
low-dimensional
tasks,
then
finds
optimal
subset
between
these
Specifically,
novel
generation
strategy
based
on
importance
features
developed,
which
can
generate
highly
tasks
from
dataset
adaptively.
In
addition,
new
mechanism
presented,
effectively
implement
positive
results
demonstrate
that
proposed
method
evolve
higher
classification
accuracy
shorter
time
than
other
state-of-the-art
methods
classification.
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
22(5), P. 1711 - 1711
Published: Feb. 22, 2022
We
live
in
a
period
when
smart
devices
gather
large
amount
of
data
from
variety
sensors
and
it
is
often
the
case
that
decisions
are
taken
based
on
them
more
or
less
autonomous
manner.
Still,
many
inputs
do
not
prove
to
be
essential
decision-making
process;
hence,
utmost
importance
find
means
eliminating
noise
concentrating
most
influential
attributes.
In
this
sense,
we
put
forward
method
swarm
intelligence
paradigm
for
extracting
important
features
several
datasets.
The
thematic
paper
novel
implementation
an
algorithm
branch
machine
learning
domain
improving
feature
selection.
combination
with
metaheuristic
approaches
has
recently
created
new
artificial
called
learnheuristics.
This
approach
benefits
both
capability
selection
solutions
impact
accuracy
performance,
as
well
known
characteristic
algorithms
efficiently
comb
through
search
space
solutions.
latter
used
wrapper
improvements
significant.
paper,
modified
version
salp
proposed.
solution
verified
by
21
datasets
classification
model
K-nearest
neighborhoods.
Furthermore,
performance
compared
best
same
test
setup
resulting
better
number
proposed
solution.
Therefore,
tackles
demonstrates
its
success
benchmark
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
27(6), P. 1896 - 1911
Published: Jan. 23, 2023
In
this
article,
a
new
feature
selection
(FS)
algorithm,
called
simple,
fast,
and
efficient
(SFE),
is
proposed
for
high-dimensional
datasets.
The
SFE
algorithm
performs
its
search
process
using
agent
two
operators:
1)
nonselection
2)
selection.
It
comprises
phases:
exploration
exploitation.
the
phase,
operator
global
in
entire
problem
space
irrelevant,
redundant,
trivial,
noisy
features
changes
status
of
from
selected
mode
to
nonselected
mode.
exploitation
searches
with
high
impact
on
classification
results
successful
FS
However,
after
reducing
dimensionality
dataset,
performance
cannot
be
increased
significantly.
these
situations,
an
evolutionary
computational
method
could
used
find
more
subset
reduced
space.
To
overcome
issue,
article
proposes
hybrid
SFE-PSO
(particle
swarm
optimization)
optimal
subset.
efficiency
effectiveness
are
compared
40
Their
performances
were
six
recently
algorithms.
obtained
indicate
that
algorithms
significantly
outperform
other
can
as
effective
selecting
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
28(4), P. 1156 - 1176
Published: July 5, 2023
Maximizing
the
classification
accuracy
and
minimizing
number
of
selected
features
are
two
primary
objectives
in
feature
selection,
which
is
inherently
a
multiobjective
task.
Multiobjective
selection
enables
us
to
gain
various
insights
from
complex
data
addition
dimensionality
reduction
improved
accuracy,
has
attracted
increasing
attention
researchers
practitioners.
Over
past
decades,
significant
advancements
have
been
achieved
both
methodologies
applications,
but
not
well
summarized
discussed.
To
fill
this
gap,
paper
presents
broad
survey
on
existing
research
classification,
focusing
up-to-date
approaches,
current
challenges,
future
directions.
be
specific,
we
categorize
basis
different
criteria,
provide
detailed
descriptions
representative
methods
each
category.
Additionally,
summarize
list
successful
real-world
applications
domains,
exemplify
their
practical
value
demonstrate
abilities
providing
set
trade-off
subsets
meet
requirements
decision
makers.
We
also
discuss
key
challenges
shed
lights
emerging
directions
for
developments
selection.
Applied Energy,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
353, P. 122079 - 122079
Published: Oct. 17, 2023
This
study
investigates
the
efficacy
of
Explainable
Artificial
Intelligence
(XAI)
methods,
specifically
Gradient-weighted
Class
Activation
Mapping
(Grad-CAM)
and
Shapley
Additive
Explanations
(SHAP),
in
feature
selection
process
for
national
demand
forecasting.
Utilising
a
multi-headed
Convolutional
Neural
Network
(CNN),
both
XAI
methods
exhibit
capabilities
enhancing
forecasting
accuracy
model
efficiency
by
identifying
eliminating
irrelevant
features.
Comparative
analysis
revealed
Grad-CAM's
exceptional
computational
high-dimensional
applications
SHAP's
superior
ability
revealing
features
that
degrade
forecast
accuracy.
However,
limitations
are
found
with
Grad-CAM
including
decrease
stability,
SHAP
inaccurately
ranking
significant
Future
research
should
focus
on
refining
these
to
overcome
further
probe
into
other
methods'
applicability
within
time-series
domain.
underscores
potential
improving
load
forecasting,
which
can
contribute
significantly
development
more
interpretative,
accurate
efficient
models.