Journal of Soft Computing Exploration
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): March 2024

Using genetic algorithm feature selection to optimize XGBoost performance in Australian credit

Dwika Ananda Agustina Pertiwi (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia)
Kamilah Ahmad (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia)
Shahrul Nizam Salahudin (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia)
Ahmed Mohamed Annegrat (University of Bani Waleed, Libya)
Much Aziz Muslim (Department of Computer Science, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Apr 2024

Abstract

To reduce credit risk in credit institutions, credit risk management practices need to be implemented so that lending institutions can survive in the long term. Data mining is one of the techniques used for credit risk management. Where data mining can find information patterns from big data using classification techniques with the resulting level of accuracy. This research aims to increase the accuracy of classification algorithms in predicting credit risk by applying genetic algorithms as the best feature selection method. Thus, the most important feature will be used to search for credit risk information. This research applies a classification method using the XGBoost classifier on the Australian credit dataset, then carries out an evaluation by measuring the level of accuracy and AUC. The results show an increase in accuracy of 2.24%, with an accuracy value of 89.93% after optimization using a genetic algorithm. So, through research on genetic algorithm feature selection, we can improve the accuracy performance of the XGBoost algorithm on the Australian credit dataset.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

joscex

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

Journal of Soft Computing Exploration is a journal that publishes manuscripts of scientific research papers related to soft computing. The scope of research can be from the theory and scientific applications as well as the novelty of related knowledge insights. Soft Computing: Artificial ...