An enhanced henry gas solubility optimization algorithm using transfer functions for feature selection problem
摘要
This work examines the ability of physics-inspired optimization techniques together with machine learning models by introducing eight versions of the Binary Henry Gas Solubility Optimization (B-HGSO) algorithm, based on gas solubility principles for feature selection in classification tasks. The Henry Gas Solubility Optimization (HGSO) Algorithm is a physical-based, global optimization approach initially designed for continuous :optimization problems. The B-HGSO algorithms incorporating S-shaped and V-shaped transfer functions to explore the feature space effectively, and using k-NN as a classifier, were evaluated on twelve UCI datasets, including Breast-cancer, Dermatology, and Lung-Cancer. These datasets provided a robust testbed for identifying the best-performing versions of the eight B-HGSO algorithms, which were subsequently compared against four well-established feature selection algorithms (B-GWO, B-PSO, B-MRFO, B-WOA) using accuracy, average number of features, and computational time as metrics. Statistical analysis using the Wilcoxon test demonstrated the significant performance of B-HGSO at a