StackFeat RL: Reinforcement Learning over Iterative Dual Criterion Feature Selection for Stable Biomarker Discovery

2026-04-24 · A. Yermekov, D. A. Herrera-Martí arxiv

Feature selection in high-dimensional genomic data ($d \gg n$) demands methods that are simultaneously accurate, sparse, and stable. Existing approaches either require manual threshold specification (mRMR, stability selection), produce unstable selections under data perturbation (Lasso, Boruta), or ignore biological structure entirely. We introduce StackFeat-RL, a meta-learning framework that optimises the hyperparameters of an iterative dual-criterion feature selection algorithm via REINFORCE policy gradients. The dual criterion, requiring both coefficient consistency and selection frequency, guards against two failure modes missed by single-criterion methods, while iterative accumulation provides convergence guarantees via the law of large numbers. On COVID-19 miRNA data (GSE240888, 332 features) and three Alzheimer's disease classification tasks (GSE84422, 13237 genes; Normal vs.\ Possible, Probable, and Definite AD), StackFeat-RL achieves the highest predictive accuracy among all evaluated methods, including ElasticNet, Boruta, mRMR, and stability selection, while requiring 3--4$\times$ fewer features. Keywords: feature selection, reinforcement learning, REINFORCE, elastic net, biomarker discovery, Alzheimer's disease, dual-criterion selection, protein interaction networks

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