Abstract

We reformulate branch-and-bound feature selection employing L/sub /spl infin// or particular L/sub p/ metrics, as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problems, affording convenience of widely available MILP solvers. These formulations offer direct influence over individual pairwise interclass margins, which is useful for feature selection in multiclass settings.

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Integer programmingFeature selectionLinear programmingPairwise comparisonSelection (genetic algorithm)Feature (linguistics)Branch and priceArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceInteger (computer science)Multiclass classificationPattern recognition (psychology)Branch and boundMathematical optimizationGenetic programmingMachine learningMathematicsAlgorithmSupport vector machine

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Year
2003
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article
Volume
25
Issue
6
Pages
779-783
Citations
38
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Frank J. Iannarilli, Paul A. Rubin (2003). Feature selection for multiclass discrimination via mixed-integer linear programming. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , 25 (6) , 779-783. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2003.1201827

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10.1109/tpami.2003.1201827