An Effective Multilabel Classification Using Feature Selection

Abstract

Recently, multilabel classification has received significant attention during the past years. A multilabel classification approach called coupled k-nearest neighbors algorithm for multilabel classification (called here as CK-STC) reported in the literature exploits coupled label similarities between the labels and provides improved performance [Liu and Cao in A Coupled k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Multi-label Classification, pp. 176–187, 2015]. A multilabel feature selection is presented in Li et al. [Multi-label Feature Selection via Information Gain, pp. 346–355, 2014] and called as FSVIG here. FSVIG uses information gain that shows better performance when used with ML-NB, ML-kNN, and RandSvm when compared with existing multilabel feature selection algorithms.This paper investigates the performance of FSVIG when used with CK-STC and compares its performance with other multilabel feature selection algorithms available in MULAN using standard multilabel datasets. Experimental results show that FSVIG when used with CK-STC provides better performance in terms of average precision and one-error.