Ranking attributes using learning of preferences by means of SVM

  1. Hernández Arauzo, Alejandro 1
  2. García Torres, Miguel 2
  3. Bahamonde, Antonio 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

  2. 2 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Libro:
XII Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial: (CAEPIA 2007). Actas
  1. Borrajo Millán, Daniel (coord.)
  2. Castillo Vidal, Luis (coord.)
  3. Corchado Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (coord.)

Editorial: Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-611-8846-8 978-84-611-8847-5

Año de publicación: 2007

Volumen: 1

Páginas: 87-96

Congreso: Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (12. 2007. Salamanca)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

Resumen

A relaxed setting for Feature Selection is known as Feature Ranking in Machine Learning. The aim is to establish an order between the attributes that describe the entries of a learning task according to their utility. In this paper, we propose a method to establish these orders using Preference Learning by means of Support Vector Machines (SVM). We include an exhaustive experimental study that investigates the virtues and limitations of the method and discusses, simultaneously, the design options that we have adopted. The conclusion is that our method is very competitive, specially when it searchs for a ranking limiting the number of combinations of attributes explored; this supports that the method presented here could be successfully used in large data sets.