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Margin-maximizing feature elimination methods for linear and nonlinear kernel-based discriminant functions.

Yaman Aksu1, David J Miller, George Kesidis

  • 1Electrical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. ya1@psu.edu

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
|March 3, 2010
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New margin-based feature elimination (MFE) improves support vector machine (SVM) classification by enhancing margin maximization and generalization, outperforming recursive feature elimination (RFE), especially for nonlinear kernels.

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Area of Science:

  • Machine Learning
  • Computational Biology
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • High-dimensional feature selection enhances classification generalization and reduces complexity.
  • Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) is a common technique for Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification.
  • RFE's consistency with SVM's margin maximization principle is questionable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate an explicit margin-based feature elimination (MFE) method for SVMs.
  • To address the limitations of RFE, particularly with nonlinear kernels like the Gaussian kernel.
  • To improve both margin maximization and generalization performance in SVM classification.

Main Methods:

  • Developed explicit margin-based feature elimination (MFE) for SVMs.
  • Analyzed RFE's assumption of a strictly decreasing weight vector norm during feature elimination.
  • Introduced extensions to MFE for further margin gains and margin slackness.
  • Compared MFE against RFE and linear programming methods.

Main Results:

  • MFE demonstrated improved margin and generalization compared to RFE.
  • RFE's limitations were highlighted for nonlinear kernels (e.g., Gaussian kernel).
  • MFE achieved better margin and generalization for nonlinear kernels.
  • Extensions to MFE provided further margin improvements.
  • MFE showed promising results on gene microarray, UCI repository, and Alzheimer's disease brain image data.

Conclusions:

  • MFE is a more theoretically sound and practically effective feature selection method for SVMs than RFE.
  • MFE offers superior performance, especially in high-dimensional and nonlinear classification tasks.
  • The proposed MFE methods provide a robust alternative for feature selection in various high-dimensional datasets.