Research Article

Effective Evolutionary Multilabel Feature Selection under a Budget Constraint

Table 3

Comparison results for multilabel feature selection methods in terms of multilabel accuracy and Hamming loss (mean std. deviation). The ✓ symbol indicates the method that achieves the best performance for each dataset.

Methods Evaluation measure
Multi-label accuracyHamming loss
Proposed RGA Proposed RGA

Birds0.497 0.048 0.459 0.048 0.055 0.005✓ 0.056 0.004
Emotions 0.460 0.020 0.447 0.029 0.243 0.022✓ 0.252 0.016
Enron0.360 0.021 0.271 0.042 0.056 0.002✓ 0.060 0.001
Genbase0.886 0.041 0.155 0.097 0.011 0.004✓ 0.042 0.003
LLog0.213 0.027 0.166 0.026 0.016 0.0010.016 0.001
Mediamill0.366 0.002 0.359 0.005 0.034 0.0000.034 0.000
Medical0.517 0.048 0.097 0.0460.018 0.002 0.026 0.002
Scene0.408 0.019 0.352 0.030 0.157 0.0020.154 0.005
Slashdot0.144 0.017 0.031 0.0110.048 0.001 0.053 0.000
TMC20070.372 0.005 0.318 0.0200.084 0.001 0.088 0.001
Yeast0.465 0.013 0.442 0.0190.224 0.006 0.225 0.010
Arts0.140 0.012 0.049 0.0150.060 0.001 0.063 0.001
Business 0.678 0.0110.678 0.008 0.029 0.0010.029 0.001
Education0.109 0.019 0.033 0.0110.042 0.001 0.044 0.001
Entertain0.233 0.016 0.128 0.0420.058 0.000 0.065 0.002
Health0.510 0.018 0.402 0.0160.040 0.001 0.049 0.001
Reference 0.382 0.044 0.393 0.011✓ 0.030 0.001 0.034 0.001
Science 0.120 0.011 0.042 0.0150.034 0.001 0.036 0.001
Social 0.546 0.018 0.134 0.0600.024 0.001 0.030 0.001
Society 0.304 0.135 0.280 0.1460.055 0.001 0.059 0.001