A Novel Multi-objective Binary Differential Evolution Algorithm for Multi-label Feature Selection
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Abstract
In machine learning, multi-label classification aims to assign labels of instances in a dataset which are associated to more than one class label. Feature selection as an important task in predictive model construction improves the performance of multi-label classification. Since feature selection task can be interpreted as optimizing multiple objectives in a massive search space, multi-objective evolutionary techniques can be applied to tackle this family of problems. In this paper, a binary multi-objective feature selection is proposed for multi-label data with considering number of features and classification accuracy as objectives. A binary differential evolution is proposed based on opposition-based learning concept and partially voting between two candidate solutions to decide about absence or presence of a feature in third randomly selected solution. Because feature selection is basically a binary optimization problem, proposing a binary operator improves the effectiveness of search process in evolutionary algorithms. The proposed operator is utilized in third version of Generalized Differential Evolution (GDE3) which is a multi-objective optimization algorithm to select best subset of multi-label features with minimum number of features. A benchmarking is conducted on eight multi-label datasets in terms of several multi-objective assessment metrics including the Hypervolume indicator, Pure Diversity, and Set-coverage. Experimental results show significant improvements for proposed method in comparison with the state-of-the-art multi-objective feature selection methods for multi-label classification, which are namely NSGA-II and PSO based approaches.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".