Robustness or stability of feature selection techniques is a topic of recent interest, and is an important issue when selected feature subsets are subsequently analysed by domain experts to gain more insight into the problem modelled. In this work, we investigate the use of ensemble feature selection techniques, where multiple feature selection methods are combined to yield more robust results. We show that these techniques show great promise for high-dimensional domains with small sample sizes, and provide more robust feature subsets than a single feature selection technique. In addition, we also investigate the effect of ensemble feature selection techniques on classification performance, giving rise to a new model selection strategy. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Saeys, Y., Abeel, T., & Van De Peer, Y. (2008). Robust feature selection using ensemble feature selection techniques. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5212 LNAI, pp. 313–325). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87481-2_21
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