A feature transformation method using genetic programming for two-class classification

Abstract

In this paper, a feature transformation method for two-class classification using genetic programming (GP) is proposed. GP derives a transformation formula to improve the classification accuracy of Support Vector Machine, SVM. In this paper, we propose a weight function to evaluate converted feature space and the proposed function is used to evaluate the function of GP. In the proposed function, the ideal two-class distribution of items is assumed and the distance between the actual and ideal distributions is calculated. The weight is imposed to these distances. To examine the effectiveness of the proposed function, a numerical experiment was performed. In the experiment, as the result, the classification accuracy of the proposed method showed the better result than that of the existing method.