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featsel's user guide

This is the user's guide of featsel, a framework for benchmarking of feature selection algorithms and cost functions. In this wiki, the user has information regarding this software requirements, installation and testing, as well as how to use its functionalities.

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Index

1. Requirements

   • Mandatory dependencies

   • Default dependencies that can be removed by the user

   • Recommended dependencies

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2. Installation

   • Compiling the main program and the unit tests

   • The Extended Markup Language (XML) parser

   • Updating 'featsel.cpp' and 'featselTest.cpp' files

   • Compiling the help man page

   • Compiling everything at once

   • Cleaning objects and binaries

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3. Running tests

   • Unit tests

   • Performance tests

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4. Adding and removing algorithms and cost functions

   • Adding a new algorithm

   • Adding a new cost function

   • Removing an algorithm

   • Removing a cost function

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5. List of available algorithms and cost functions

   • List of algorithms

   • List of cost functions

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6. Using featsel main program

   • Example using a DAT file

   • Example using a XML file

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7. Running the benchmarking program

   • Syntax

   • Example 1

   • Example 2

   • Example 3

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8. Input formats

   • The DAT format

   • The XML format

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9. Bug report and contact