Mutual information is an important information measure for feature subset. In this paper, a hashing mechanism is proposed to calculate the mutual information on the feature subset. Redundancy-synergy coefficient, a novel redundancy and synergy measure of features to express the class feature, is defined by mutual information. The information maximization rule was applied to derive the heuristic feature subset selection method based on mutual information and redundancy-synergy coefficient. Our experiment results showed the good performance of the new feature selection method.
Feature subset selection is a fundamental problem of data mining. The mutual information of feature subset is a measure for feature subset containing class feature information. A hashing mechanism is proposed to calculate the mutual information of feature subset. The feature relevancy is defined by mutual information. Redundancy-synergy coefficient, a novel redundancy and synergy measure for features to describe the class feature, is defined. In terms of information maximization rule, a bidirectional heuristic feature subset selection method based on mutual information and redundancy-synergy coefficient is presented. This study’s experiments show the good performance of the new method.
