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Table 4 Average number of selected features of the different wrapper evolutionary-based methods

From: A novel community detection based genetic algorithm for feature selection

Dataset

Number of the original feature

Method

Number of selected features

The ratio of the selected features to the original features (in  %)

SpamBase

57

PSO

8.92

15.65

ACO

8.87

15.56

ABC

8.91

15.63

CDGAFS

8.17

14.33

Sonar

60

PSO

7.31

12.18

ACO

7.13

11.88

ABC

7.83

13.05

CDGAFS

6.31

10.52

Arrhythmia

279

PSO

20.12

7.21

ACO

22.82

8.18

ABC

20.93

7.50

CDGAFS

19.70

7.06

Madelon

500

PSO

74.35

14.87

ACO

69.91

13.98

ABC

75.12

15.02

CDGAFS

75.03

15.01

Isolet

617

PSO

141.63

22.95

ACO

138.56

22.46

ABC

171.73

27.83

CDGAFS

135.26

21.92

Colon

2000

PSO

12.73

0.64

ACO

15.71

0.79

ABC

13.22

0.66

CDGAFS

12.98

0.65

  1. Minimum number of selected features is indicated in italics and underlined and the second best is in italics