Article reference:
M. Egmont-Petersen. "Feature selection
by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling - a Bayesian approach, " In
Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of the
Joint IAPR Workshops SSPR 2004 and SPR 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 3138, Eds. A. Fred et al., pp. 1034-1042, 2004.
Abstract:
We redefine the problem of feature selection as one of model selection and
propose to use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to sample models. The
applicability of our method is related to Bayesian network classifiers.
Simulation experiments indicate that our novel proposal distribution results in
an ignorant proposal prior. Finally, it is shown how the sampling can be
controlled by a regularization prior.
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