A Feature Selection Technique based on Distributional Differences


Sung-Dong Kim, Journal of Information Processing Systems Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 23-27, Mar. 2006  


Keywords: Feature selection, Distributional Differences
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Abstract

This paper presents a feature selection technique based on distributional differences for efficient machine learning. Initial training data consists of data including many features and a target value. We classified them into positive and negative data based on the target value. We then divided the range of the feature values into 10 intervals and calculated the distribution of the intervals in each positive and negative data. Then, we selected the features and the intervals of the features for which the distributional differences are over a certain threshold. Using the selected intervals and features, we could obtain the reduced training data. In the experiments, we will show that the reduced training data can reduce the training time of the neural network by about 40%, and we can obtain more profit on simulated stock trading using the trained functions as well.


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[APA Style]
Kim, S. (2006). A Feature Selection Technique based on Distributional Differences. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 2(1), 23-27. DOI: .

[IEEE Style]
S. Kim, "A Feature Selection Technique based on Distributional Differences," Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 23-27, 2006. DOI: .

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Sung-Dong Kim. 2006. A Feature Selection Technique based on Distributional Differences. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 2, 1, (2006), 23-27. DOI: .