On the evolutionary optimization of k-NN by label-dependent feature weighting

Different approaches of feature weighting and k-value selection to improve the nearest neighbour technique can be found in the literature. In this work, we show an evolutionary approach called k-Label Dependent Evolutionary Distance Weighting (kLDEDW) which calculates a set of local weights dependin...

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Autores: Mateos García, Daniel, García Gutiérrez, Jorge, Riquelme Santos, José Cristóbal
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/43441
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/43441
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2012.08.011
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Feature weighting
evolutionary computation
Label dependency
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Sumario:Different approaches of feature weighting and k-value selection to improve the nearest neighbour technique can be found in the literature. In this work, we show an evolutionary approach called k-Label Dependent Evolutionary Distance Weighting (kLDEDW) which calculates a set of local weights depending on each class besides an optimal k value. Thus, we attempt to carry out two improvements simultaneously: we locally transform the feature space to improve the accuracy of the k-nearest-neighbour rule whilst we search for the best value for k from the training data. Rigorous statistical tests demonstrate that our approach improves the general k-nearest-neighbour rule and several approaches based on local weighting.