A Parallel Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Selection and Parameter Optimization for Support Vector Machine

Table 5

Comparisons of computational efficiency.

Dataset	Proposed approach(s)	GA-SVM (s)	Speedup
Ionosphere	1.52	6.54	4.30×
Breast cancer	4.51	18.61	4.13×
Australian	15.98	70.68	4.42×
Diabetes	25.90	97.43	3.76×
Vehicle	12.50	57.41	4.59×
Vowel	12.40	52.37	4.22×
Car	64.39	256.26	3.98×
Splice	141.35	580.97	4.11×
DNA	253.59	1108.20	4.37×
WaveForm	202.05	846.59	4.19×
Svmguide1	480.78	2077.00	4.32×
Mushrooms	244.74	996.11	4.07×