TITLE:
Attribute Reduction Method Based on Sequential Three-Branch Decision Model
AUTHORS:
Peiyu Su, Fu Li
KEYWORDS:
Attribute Reduction, Three-Branch Decision, Sequential Three-Branch Decision
JOURNAL NAME:
Applied Mathematics,
Vol.15 No.4,
April
7,
2024
ABSTRACT: Attribute reduction is a research hotspot in rough set theory. Traditional heuristic attribute reduction methods add the most important attribute to the decision attribute set each time, resulting in multiple redundant attribute calculations, high time consumption, and low reduction efficiency. In this paper, based on the idea of sequential three-branch decision classification domain, attributes are treated as objects of three-branch division, and attributes are divided into core attributes, relatively necessary attributes, and unnecessary attributes using attribute importance and thresholds. Core attributes are added to the decision attribute set, unnecessary attributes are rejected from being added, and relatively necessary attributes are repeatedly divided until the reduction result is obtained. Experiments were conducted on 8 groups of UCI datasets, and the results show that, compared to traditional reduction methods, the method proposed in this paper can effectively reduce time consumption while ensuring classification performance.