Algoritmo genético compacto com dominância para seleção de variáveis

• Autor(a) principal: Nogueira, Heber Valdo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7360
• topic: Seleção de variáveis; Algoritmo genético compacto; Otimização multiobjetivo; Feature selection; Compact genetic algorithm; Multiobjective optimization; CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO

The features selection problem consists in to select a subset of attributes that is able to reduce computational processing and storage resources, decrease curse of dimensionality effects and improve the performance of predictive models. Among the strategies used to solve this type of problem, we highlight evolutionary algorithms, such as the Genetic Algorithm. Despite the relative success of the Genetic Algorithm in solving various types of problems, different improvements have been proposed in order to improve their performance. Such improvements focus mainly on population representation, search mechanisms, and evaluation methods. In one of these proposals, the Genetic Compact Algorithm (CGA) arose, which proposes new ways of representing the population and guide the search for better solutions. Applying this type of strategy to solve the problem of variable selection often involves overfitting. In this context, this work proposes the implementation of a version of the Compact Genetic Algorithm to minimize more than one objective simultaneously. Such algorithm makes use of the concept of Pareto dominance and, therefore, is called Genetic Algorithm Compacted with Dominance (CGAD). As a case study, to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, AGC-D is combined with Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) to select variables to better predict protein concentration in wheat samples. The proposed algorithm is compared to CGA and the Mutation-based Compact Genetic Algorithm. The results indicate that the CGAD is able to select a small set of variables, reducing the prediction error of the calibration model, reducing the possibility of overfitting.