Implementation of nature-inspired optimization algorithms in some data mining tasks

Data mining optimization received much attention in the last decades due to introducing new optimization techniques, which were applied successfully to solve such stochastic mining problems. This paper addresses implementation of evolutionary optimization algorithms (EOAs) for mining two famous data sets in machine learning by implementing four different optimization techniques. The selected data sets used for evaluating the proposed optimization algorithms are Iris dataset and Breast Cancer dataset. In the classification problem of this paper, the neural network (NN) is used with four optimization techniques, which are whale optimization algorithm (WOA), dragonfly algorithm (DA), multiverse optimization (MVA), and grey wolf optimization (GWO). Different control parameters were considered for accurate judgments of the suggested optimization techniques. The comparitive study proves that, the GWO, and MVO provide accurate results over both WO, and DA in terms of convergence, runtime, classification rate, and MSE.