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Feature Selection as a One-Player Game

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Feature Selection as a One-Player Game
This paper formalizes Feature Selection as a Reinforcement Learning problem, leading to a provably optimal though intractable selection policy. As a second contribution, this paper presents an approximation thereof, based on a one-player game approach and relying on the Monte-Carlo tree search UCT (Upper Confidence Tree) proposed by Kocsis and Szepesvari (2006). More precisely, the presented FUSE (Feature Uct SElection) algorithm extends UCT to deal with i) a finite unknown horizon (the target number of relevant features); ii) a huge branching factor of the search tree (the size of the initial feature set). Additionally, a frugal reward function is proposed as a rough but unbiased estimate of the relevance of a feature subset. A proof of concept of FUSE is shown on the NIPS 2003 Feature Selection Challenge.
Romaric Gaudel, Michèle Sebag
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ICML
Authors Romaric Gaudel, Michèle Sebag
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