A Survey on Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Feature Selection

@article{Xue2016ASO,
  title={A Survey on Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Feature Selection},
  author={Bing Xue and Mengjie Zhang and Will N. Browne and Xin Yao},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation},
  year={2016},
  volume={20},
  pages={606-626}
}
Feature selection is an important task in data mining and machine learning to reduce the dimensionality of the data and increase the performance of an algorithm, such as a classification algorithm. However, feature selection is a challenging task due mainly to the large search space. A variety of methods have been applied to solve feature selection problems, where evolutionary computation (EC) techniques have recently gained much attention and shown some success. However, there are no… 
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