Multi-source Multi-label Feature Selection

Feature selection for multi-source multi-label data has attracted much attention, because there are a lot of scenarios that produce multiple source data with multi-labels in the real-world applications, which aggravates the problems of dimensional disaster and the label skewness. However, most of existing multi-source feature selection methods miss the multi-label issue while existing multi-label feature selection methods can not select the optimal feature set in the multi-source environment. Motivated by this, we propose a novel feature selection method, called MSMLFS. To be specific, the Inf-FS algorithm is firstly introduced to handle multi-label feature selection for each data source, which considers the label weight in the feature selection. Secondly, the over-sampling mechanism and the inter-source feature fusion method are used to handle the label skewness of multi-label data and the feature selection in multiple sources respectively. Finally, extensive experiments conducted on synthetic and real-world multi-source multi-label data sets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several state-of-the-art multi-source or multi-label feature selection methods.