Feature Selection with Genetic Algorithms

A natural selection process to determine an optimal set of features.

Zachary Warnes
Towards Data Science
6 min readSep 11, 2021

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A genetic algorithm is a technique for optimization problems based on natural selection. In this post, I show how to use genetic algorithms for feature selection.

While there are many well-known feature selections methods in scikit-learn, feature…

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