DynFS: dynamic genotype cutting feature selection algorithm

Large information datasets often impose an immense number of features where many are found redundant and thus inessential for statistical analysis. In the past, a data preprocessing phase was formalized to cope with the problem and take appropriate remedial measures. Traditionally, this was a fixed and stationary process that suffered from a lack of transparency and high susceptibility to input variations. This paper presents a novel and fully automated meta-heuristic nature-inspired wrapper-based feature selection framework DynFS with dynamically cutting search space. The experiments show that the DynFS statistically significantly overcomes a fixed feature selection framework and allows for a high level of robustness and stability.