Statistical Discriminability Estimation for Pattern Classification Based on Neural Incremental Attribute Learning

Ting Wang, Sheng-Uei Guan, Sadasivan Puthusserypady and Prudence W. H. Wong
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Ting Wang: Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Sheng-Uei Guan: Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Jiangsu, China
Sadasivan Puthusserypady: Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Prudence W. H. Wong: Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), 2014, vol. 5, issue 2, 37-57

Abstract: Feature ordering is a significant data preprocessing method in Incremental Attribute Learning (IAL), a novel machine learning approach which gradually trains features according to a given order. Previous research has shown that, similar to feature selection, feature ordering is also important based on each feature's discrimination ability, and should be sorted in a descending order of their discrimination ability. However, such an ordering is crucial for the performance of IAL. As the number of feature dimensions in IAL is increasing, feature discrimination ability also should be calculated in the corresponding incremental way. Based on Single Discriminability (SD), where only the feature discrimination ability is computed, a new filter statistical feature discrimination ability predictive metric, called the Accumulative Discriminability (AD), is designed for the dynamical feature discrimination ability estimation. Moreover, a criterion that summarizes all the produced values of AD is employed with a GA (Genetic Algorithm)-based approach to obtain the optimum feature ordering for classification problems based on neural networks by means of IAL. Compared with the feature ordering obtained by other approaches, the method proposed in this paper exhibits better performance in the final classification results. Such a phenomenon indicates that, (i) the feature discrimination ability should be incrementally estimated in IAL, and (ii) the feature ordering derived by AD and its corresponding approaches are applicable with IAL.

Date: 2014
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