Improved Salp Swarm Algorithm based on opposition based learning and novel local search algorithm for feature selection

• Published in: Expert systems with applications Vol. 145; p. 113122
• Main Authors: Tubishat, Mohammad, Idris, Norisma, Shuib, Liyana, Abushariah, Mohammad A.M., Mirjalili, Seyedali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2020
• Subjects: Algorithm; Classification; Feature selection; Machine Learning; Opposition Based Learning; Optimization; Salp Swarm Algorithm; Opposition Based Learning; Feature selection; Salp Swarm Algorithm; Classification; Machine Learning; Algorithm; Optimization

•An improved Salp Swarm Algorithm is proposed for feature selection.•Opposition based learning was used with to improve its population diversity.•New local search algorithm was developed to avoid local optima problem.•A superior outperformance of the algorithm in comparison with other algorithms. Ma...