Feature selection using evolutionary algorithms: a data-constrained environment case study to predict tax defaulters

Chethan Sharma, Manish Agnihotri, Aditya Rathod, K. B.Ajitha Shenoy

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel method is introduced to predict tax defaulters from the given data using an ensemble of feature reduction in the first step and feeding those features to a proposed neural network. The feature reduction step includes genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and ant colony optimisation (ACO) in the performance analysis to determine the best approach. The second stage deals with experiments on the architecture of a neural network for appropriate predictions. The results indicate improvement in tax defaulter prediction on using the feature subset selected by PSO. This research work has also successfully demonstrated the positive influence on the usage of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to perform dimensionality reduction of the unselected features to preserve the underlying patterns. The best results have been achieved using PSO for feature reduction with an accuracy of 79.2% which is a 5.4% improvement compared to the existing works.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)345-355
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Cloud Computing
Volume11
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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