A novel gaussian based particle swarm optimization gravitational search algorithm for feature selection and classification

A Gaussian based Particle Swarm Optimization Gravitational Search Algorithm (GPSOGSA) is being proposed for extensive feature selection that serves highly in making effective predictions. GPSOGSA helps to overcome the problem of being stuck into the local optima and influences the local searching ability, thus it aims to bridge the gap of exploration and exploitation. The algorithm also limits the usage of too many parameters like acceleration factors, maximum velocity, inertia weight that plays a vital role in PSO, GSA and PSOGSA. The efficacy of the algorithm has been tested upon unimodal and multimodal benchmark functions. We have also evaluated the performance of the algorithm by applying it on various benchmark datasets. The algorithm uses a wrapper-based approach that includes Support Vector Machine as a learner algorithm, and improves both the execution time and the performance accuracy. The findings show that the proposed algorithm could escape from local optimum and converges faster than the PSO, GSA and PSOGSA algorithms.