An Adaptive Streaming Feature Selection Technique for Classifying Non-Stationary Data Streams

In today's digital era, various real-world applications generate data in streams, and these data streams are of two types stationary data streams, which are static, and non-stationary data streams that are dynamic in nature. Non-stationary data streams are pro-to-concept drifts. To overcome this issue, an adaptable streaming feature selection technique for non-stationary data streams is proposed in this paper. The selection of relevant feature space from non-stationary data streams is crucial for enabling intelligence through various data mining tasks, specifically using data classification. Feature selection improves the overall performance of the classifier while increasing the computational overhead. The proposed approach aims to enable streaming feature selection whenever the classification accuracy is underperforming to enhance the classification accuracy, while the model remains stable if there is no change in the concepts. The proposed approach is adaptive and ameliorates the classifier performance by reducing the error rate during changes in the concept with time. This adaptability to concept drift improves the accuracy by approximately 16% and reduces the computation time by 50%. The proposed model avoids overfitting of the model.