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The purpose of attribute reduction is to prevent too many attributes from affecting classifier operations and reduce the dimensionality of data space. Presently, in order to further improve the simplification performance of attribute reduction, numerous researchers have proposed a variety of methods. However, given the current findings, the challenges are: to reasonably compress the search space of candidate attributes; to fulfill multi-perspective evaluation; and to actualize attribute reduction based on guidance. In view of this, forward greedy searching to \u03ba-reduct based on granular ball is proposed, which has the following advantages: (1) forming symmetrical granular balls to actualize the grouping of the universe; (2) continuously merging small universes to provide guidance for subsequent calculations; and (3) combining supervised and unsupervised perspectives to enrich the viewpoint of attribute evaluation and better improve the capability of attribute reduction. Finally, based on three classifiers, 16 UCI datasets are used to compare our proposed method with six advanced algorithms about attribute reduction and an algorithm without applying any attribute reduction algorithms. 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