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Clustering high-dimensional data derived

from Feature Selection Algorithm
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Mohammad Raziuddin , T. Venkata Ramana

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Assistant Professor, NMREC

Professor & HOD, CSE, SLC's IET
raziuddin.5807@gmail.com, meetramana_12@yahoo.co.in
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Abstract:

Clustering high-dimensional data is the cluster analysis of data with anywhere from a few dozen to
many thousands of dimensions. Such high-dimensional data spaces are often encountered in areas such as
medicine, where DNA microarray technology can produce a large number of measurements at once, and the
clustering of text documents, where, if a word-frequency vector is used, the number of dimensions equals the size.
Feature selection is the process of identifying a subset of the most useful features that produces compatible results
as the original entire set of features. A feature selection algorithm may be evaluated from both the efficiency and
effectiveness points of view. While the efficiency concerns the time required to find a subset of features, the
effectiveness is related to the quality of the subset of features. Based on these criteria, a FAST clustering-based
feature Selection algorithm (FAST) is proposed and experimentally evaluated. Features in different clusters are
relatively independent; the clustering-based strategy of FAST has a high probability of producing a subset of useful
and independent features.

Keywords:

high-dimensional data spaces, filter method, feature clustering, graph-based clustering, feature
Selection algorithm (FAST).

1. INTRODUCTION

Feature selection is an important topic in data

mining, especially for high dimensional datasets.
Feature selection (also known as subset selection)
is an effective way for reducing dimensionality,
removing irrelevant data, increasing learning
accuracy. Feature selection [14] can be divided into
four types: the Embedded, Wrapper, Filter, Hybrid
approaches.
Clustering high-dimensional data is the cluster
analysis of data with anywhere from a few dozen
to many thousands of dimensions. Such highdimensional data spaces are often encountered in
areas
such
as
medicine,
where DNA
microarray technology can produce a large number
of measurements at once, and the clustering of text
documents, where, if a word-frequency vector is
used, the number of dimensions equals the size. Eg
of high-dimensional data are

Data on health status of patients can be highdimensional (100+ measured/recorded parameters

from blood analysis, immune system status,
genetic background, nutrition, alcohol- tobaccodrug-consumption,
operations,
treatments,
diagnosed diseases ...)
The Embedded methods incorporate feature
selection as part of the training process and are
usually specific to given learning algorithms.
Decision Trees is the one example for embedded
approach. Wrapper model approach uses the
method of classification itself to measure the
importance of features set, hence the feature
selected depends on the classifier model used.
Wrapper methods generally result in better
performance than filter methods because the
feature selection process is optimized for the
classification algorithm to be used. However,
wrapper methods are too expensive for large

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dimensional database in terms of computational

complexity and time since each feature set
considered must be evaluated with the classifier
algorithm used [11]. The filter approach actually
precedes the actual classification process. The filter
approach is independent of the learning algorithm,
computationally simple fast and scalable [11].
With respect to the filter feature selection methods,
the application of cluster analysis has been
demonstrated to show the effectiveness of the
features selected from the point of view of
classification accuracy [14]. In cluster analysis,
graph-theoretic methods have been well studied
and used in many applications. The general graph
theoretic clustering is simple: compute a
neighborhood graph then delete any edge in the
graph that is much longer/ shorter (according of
instances, to some criterion) than its neighbors. The
result is a forest and each tree in the forest
represents a cluster. In our study, we apply graph
theoretic clustering methods to features.

2. RELATED WORKS
Zheng Zhao and Huan Liu in Searching for
Interacting Features propose to efficiently handle
feature interaction to achieve efficient feature
selection [13]. S.Swetha, A.Harpika in A Novel
Feature Subset Algorithm for High Dimensional
Data, build up a novel algorithm that can capably
and efficiently deal with both inappropriate and
redundant characteristics, and get hold of a
superior feature subset [14]. T.Jaga Priya Vathana,
C.Saravanabhavan, Dr.J.Vellingiri in A Survey on
Feature Selection Algorithm for High Dimensional
Data Using Fuzzy Logic proposed fuzzy logic has
focused on minimized redundant data set and
improves the feature subset accuracy [15].
Manoranjan Dash, Huan Liub in Consistencybased search in feature selection, focuses on
inconsistency measure according to which a
feature subset is inconsistent if there exist at least
two instances with same feature values but with
different class labels. We compare inconsistency
measure with other measures and study different
search strategies such as exhaustive, complete,
heuristic and random search that can be applied to
this measure [16]. Mr. M. Senthil Kumar, Ms. V.

Latha Jyothi M.E in A Fast Clustering Based

Feature
Subset
Selection
Using
Affinity
Propagation Algorithm-Traditional approaches
for clustering data are based on
metric similarities, i.e., nonnegative, symmetric,
and satisfying the triangle inequality measures
using graph based algorithm to replace this
process a more recent approaches, like Affinity
Propagation (AP) algorithm can be selected and
also take input as general non metric similarities
*1+. Priyanka M G in Feature Subset Selection
Algorithm over Multiple Dataset- here a fast
clustering based feature subset selection algorithm
is used. The algorithm involves (i) removing
irrelevant features, (ii) constructing clusters from
the relevant features, and (iii) removing redundant
features and selecting representative features. It is
an effective way for reducing dimensionality. This
FAST algorithm has advantages like efficiency and
effectiveness. Efficiency concerns the time required
to find a subset of features and effectiveness is
related to the quality of the subset of features. It
can be extended to use with multiple datasets [2].
Lei Yu, Huan Liu in Efficient Feature Selection via
Analysis of Relevance and Redundancy- we show
that feature relevance alone is insufficient for
efficient feature selection of high-dimensional data.
We define feature redundancy and propose to
perform explicit redundancy analysis in feature
selection. A new framework is introduced that
decouples relevance analysis and redundancy
analysis. We develop a correlation-based method
for relevance and redundancy analysis, and
conduct an empirical study of its efficiency and
effectiveness comparing with representative
methods [17]. Yanxia Zhang, Ali Luo, and
Yongheng Zhao in An automated classification
algorithm for multi-wavelength data we applied a
kind of filter approach named Relief to select
features from the multi-wavelength data. Then we
put forward the naive Bayes classifier to classify
the objects with the feature subsets and compare
the results with and without feature selection, and
those with and without adding weights to features.
The result shows that the naive Bayes classifier
based on Relief algorithms is robust and efficient to
preselect AGN candidates [18]. N.Deepika,
R.Saravana Kumar in A Fast Clustering Based
Flexible and Accurate Motif Detector Technique for

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High Dimensional Data, present an algorithm that

uses FLAME as a building block and can mine
combinations of simple approximate motifs under
relaxed constraints. The approach we take in
FLAME explores the space of all possible models.
In order to carry out this exploration in an efficient
way, we first construct two suffix trees: a suffix
tree on the actual data set that contains counts in
each node (called the data suffix tree), and a suffix
tree on the set of all possible model strings (called
the model suffix tree).

values, which might lead to insights about the

3. PROBLEMS OVER CLUSTERING IN

HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA

that some attributes are correlated. Hence,

Four problems need to be overcome for clustering

oriented affine subspaces.

relevance of certain blood values for a disease.

But for different diseases, different blood values
might form a cluster, and other values might be
uncorrelated. This is known as the local feature
relevance problem: different clusters might be
found in different subspaces, so a global filtering
of attributes is not sufficient.

Given a large number of attributes, it is likely

clusters

might

exist

in

arbitrarily

in high-dimensional data:[1]

Multiple dimensions are hard to think in,

impossible

to

visualize,

and,

due

to

the

exponential growth of the number of possible

values

with

enumeration

each
of

all

dimension,

complete

subspaces

becomes

intractable with increasing dimensionality. This

problem is known as the curse.

The concept of distance becomes less precise as

the number of dimensions grows, since the
distance between any two points in a given

4. FEATURE SELECTION
To remove irrelevant features and redundant
features, the FAST [14] algorithm has two
connected components. The irrelevant feature
removal is straightforward once the right relevance
measure is defined or selected, while the
redundant feature elimination is a bit of
sophisticated. In our proposed FAST algorithm, it
involves 1) the construction of the minimum
spanning tree from a weighted complete graph; 2)
the partitioning of the MST into a forest with each
tree representing a cluster; and 3) the selection of
representative features from the clusters.

dataset converges. The discrimination of the

nearest and farthest point in particular becomes
meaningless:

A cluster is intended to group objects that are

related, based on observations of their attribute's
values. However, given a large number of
attributes some of the attributes will usually not
be meaningful for a given cluster. For example,
in newborn screening a cluster of samples might
identify newborns that share similar blood
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Fig 1.Clustering based FAST

A. Load Data
The data has to be pre-processed for removing
missing values, noise and outliers. Then the given
dataset must be converted into the raff format.
From the raff format, only the attributes and the
values are extracted and stored into the database.
By considering the last column of the dataset as the
class attribute and select the distinct class labels
from that and classify the entire dataset with
respect to class labels.

B. Entropy and Conditional Entropy

Calculation
Relevant features have strong correlation with
target concept so are always necessary for a best
subset, while redundant features are not because
their values are completely correlated with each
other. Thus, notions of feature redundancy and
feature relevance are normally in terms of feature
correlation and feature-target concept correlation.
To find the relevance of each attribute with the
class label, Information gain is computed. This is
also said to be Mutual Information measure.
Mutual information measures how much the
distribution of the feature values and target classes
differ from statistical independence. This is a
nonlinear estimation of correlation between feature
values or feature values and target classes. The
Symmetric Uncertainty (SU) is derived from the
mutual information by normalizing it to the
entropies of feature values or feature values and
target classes, and has been used to evaluate the
goodness of features for classification. The SU is
defined as follows:

Where, H(X) is the entropy of a random variable X.

Gain (X|Y) is the amount by which the entropy of
Y decreases. It reflects the additional information
about Y provided by X and is called the
information gain [13] which is given by

Where H (X|Y) is the conditional entropy which

quantifies the remaining entropy (i.e., uncertainty)
of a random variable X given that the value of
another random variable
Y is known.

C.
T-Relevance
Computation

and

F-Correlation

The relevance between the feature Fi F and the

target concept C is referred to as the T-Relevance
of Fi and C, and denoted by SU (Fi, C). If SU (Fi, C)
is greater than a predetermined threshold, then Fi
is a strong T-Relevance feature.
After finding the relevance value, the redundant
attributes will be removed with respect to the
threshold value. The correlation between any pair
of features Fi and Fj (Fi, Fj ^ F ^ i j) is called the
F-Correlation of Fi and Fj, and denoted by SU (Fi,
Fj). The equation symmetric uncertainty which is
used for finding the relevance between the
attribute and the class is again applied to find the
similarity between two attributes with respect to
each label.

D. MST Construction
With the F-Correlation value computed above, the
MST is constructed. A MST [12] is a sub-graph of a
weighted, connected and undirected graph. It is
acyclic, connects all the nodes in the graph, and the
sum of all of the weight of all of its edges is
minimum. That is, there is no other spanning tree,
or sub-graph which connects all the nodes and has
a smaller sum. If the weights of all the edges are
unique, then the MST is unique. The nodes in the
tree will represent the samples, and the axis of the
dimensional graph represents the n features.
The complete graph G reflects the correlations
among
all
the
target-relevant
features.
Unfortunately, graph G has k vertices and k(k-1)/2
edges. For high dimensional data, it is heavily
dense and the edges with different weights are
strongly interwoven. Moreover, the decomposition
of complete graph is NP-hard. Thus for graph G,

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build an MST, which connects all vertices such that

the sum of the weights of the edges is the
minimum, using the well known Kruskals
algorithm. The weight of edge (Fi`, Fj`) is FCorrelation SU(Fi`,Fj`).
Kruskal's algorithm is a greedy algorithm in graph
theory that finds a MST for a connected weighted
graph. This means it finds a subset of the edges
that forms a tree that includes every vertex, where
the total weight of all the edges in the tree is
minimized. If the graph is not connected, then it
finds a minimum spanning forest (a
MST for each connected component). If the graph
is connected, the forest has a single component and
forms a MST. In this tree, the vertices represent the
relevance value and the edges represent the FCorrelation value.

E. Partitioning MST and Feature subset

selection
After building the MST, in the third step, first
remove the edges whose weights are smaller than
both of the TRelevance SU (Fi`, C) and SU (Fj`, C),
from the MST. After removing all the unnecessary
edges, a forest F is obtained. Each tree Tj F
represents a cluster that is denoted as V (Tj), which
is the vertex set of Tj as well. As illustrated above,
the features in each cluster are redundant, so for
each cluster V (Tj) chooses a representative
features whose T-Relevance is the greatest. All
representative features comprise the final feature
subset.

Fig. 2 Example of Minimum Spanning Tree

F. Classification
After selecting feature subset, classify selected
subset using Probability-based Nave Bayes
Classifier with the help of Bayes concept.. Thus the

nave Bayes based classifier able to classify in

many categories with the various label
classification and feature selections from the
output of the kruskals where it generates the some
filtered that MST values, which can formulates
some cluster view with the help of the nave Bayes
concepts.

4. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we have proposed an Efficient FAST
clustering-based feature subset selection algorithm
for high dimensional data improves the efficiency
of the time required to find a subset of features.
The algorithm involves 1) removing irrelevant
features, 2) constructing a minimum spanning tree
from relative ones, and 3) partitioning the MST
and selecting representative features. In the
proposed algorithm, a cluster consists of features.
Each cluster is treated as a single feature and thus
dimensionality is drastically reduced and
improved the classification accuracy.

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