A self-adaptive quantum equilibrium optimizer with artificial bee colony for feature selection

Zhong, Changting, Li, Gang, Meng, Zeng, Li, Haijiang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6326-8133 and He, Wanxin 2023. A self-adaptive quantum equilibrium optimizer with artificial bee colony for feature selection. Computers in Biology and Medicine 153 , 106520. 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106520

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Abstract

Feature selection (FS) is a popular data pre-processing technique in machine learning to extract the optimal features to maintain or increase the classification accuracy of the dataset, which is a combinatorial optimization problem, requiring a powerful optimizer to obtain the optimum subset. The equilibrium optimizer (EO) is a recent physical-based metaheuristic algorithm with good performance for various optimization problems, but it may encounter premature or the local convergence in feature selection. This work presents a self-adaptive quantum EO with artificial bee colony for feature selection, named SQEOABC. In the proposed algorithm, the quantum theory and the self-adaptive mechanism are employed into the updating rule of EO to enhance convergence, and the updating mechanism from the artificial bee colony is also incorporated into EO to achieve appropriate FS solutions. In the experiments, 25 benchmark datasets from the UCI repository are investigated to verify SQEOABC, which is compared with several state-of-the-art metaheuristic algorithms and the variants of EO. The statistical results of fitness values and accuracy demonstrate that SQEOABC has better performance than the compared algorithms and the variants of EO. Finally, a real-world FS problem from COVID-19 illustrates the effectiveness and superiority of SQEOABC.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-4825
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 January 2023
Date of Acceptance:	31 December 2022
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2024 17:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/155378

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