Abstract
Feature selection is an effective method to reduce the number of data features, which boosts classification performance in machine learning. This paper uses the Tsallis-entropy-based feature selection to detect the significant feature. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is adopted as the classifier for classification purposes in this paper. We proposed an enhanced Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (ETLBO) to optimize the SVM and Tsallis entropy parameters to improve classification accuracy. The adaptive weight strategy and Kent chaotic map are used to enhance the optimal ability of the traditional TLBO. The proposed method aims to avoid the main weaknesses of the original TLBO, which is trapped in local optimal and unbalance between the search mechanisms. Experiments based on 16 classical datasets are selected to test the performance of the ETLBO, and the results are compared with other well-established optimization algorithms. The obtained results illustrate that the proposed method has better performance in classification accuracy.