Journal of Hebei University (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 200-204.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1565.2020.02.013

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Unsupervised feature selection based on ranking mutual information

LI Chunguo1,2,ZHANG Chunqin1,LI Haifeng3   

  1. 1.College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China; 2.Hebei Key Laboratory of Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Baoding 071002, China; 3.Department of Computer Teaching, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
  • Received:2019-09-20 Online:2020-03-25 Published:2020-03-25

Abstract: Based on ranking prior knowledge of monotonicity,each observation attribute should be monotonic with the other observation attributes for unsupervised ranking problems.Otherwise,the attribute would be irrelevant with ranking and should be assumed to a redundant attribute.Based on the ranking mutual information,which reflects the monotonic degree between observation attributes and the order sequence,mean ranking mutual information is proposed to measure the monotonicity between observation attributes.The most relevant attributes should be with the biggest ranking mutual information.

Key words: unsupervised ranking, feature selection, ranking mutual information

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