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New MMAO-Cls method optimizes feature selection and classifier tuning

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Researchers have developed MMAO-Cls, a novel approach that utilizes the Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer (MMAO) for selecting features and tuning classifiers in machine learning models. This method jointly encodes feature masks and classifier hyperparameters, aiming to optimize the accuracy-complexity tradeoff. While MMAO-Cls achieved a strong aggregate validation objective score, ranking second to GA-lite, its performance on held-out test data showed improvement over RandomSearch and GA-lite, though not yet statistically significant. Notably, MMAO-Cls demonstrated the most compact feature subset usage among the compared methods. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jinliang Xu, Liping Ma ·

    MMAO-Cls: Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimization for Joint Feature Selection and Classifier Tuning

    arXiv:2607.01539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies whether the Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer (MMAO) can act as a credible outer-loop optimizer for classification model selection. We propose MMAO-Cls, a mixed-space realization in which each agent jointly encode…

  2. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Liping Ma ·

    MMAO-Cls: Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimization for Joint Feature Selection and Classifier Tuning

    This paper studies whether the Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer (MMAO) can act as a credible outer-loop optimizer for classification model selection. We propose MMAO-Cls, a mixed-space realization in which each agent jointly encodes a binary feature mask and classifier hyperparame…

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