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A Note on Archetypal Analysis and the Approximation of Convex Hulls

Numerical Analysis 2014-10-03 v1 Computational Geometry

Abstract

We briefly review the basic ideas behind archetypal analysis for matrix factorization and discuss its behavior in approximating the convex hull of a data sample. We then ask how good such approximations can be and consider different cases. Understanding archetypal analysis as the problem of computing a convexity constrained low-rank approximation of the identity matrix provides estimates for archetypal analysis and the SiVM heuristic.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0642,
  title  = {A Note on Archetypal Analysis and the Approximation of Convex Hulls},
  author = {Christian Bauckhage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0642},
  year   = {2014}
}