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Deep neural networks (DNNs) often produce overconfident out-of-distribution predictions, motivating Bayesian uncertainty quantification. The Linearized Laplace Approximation (LLA) achieves this by linearizing the DNN and applying Laplace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Pedro Jiménez , Luis A. Ortega , Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Discriminant analysis (DA) is one of the most popular methods for classification due to its conceptual simplicity, low computational cost, and often solid performance. In its standard form, DA uses the arithmetic mean and sample covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Mia Hubert , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a widely-used supervised dimensionality reduction method in computer vision and pattern recognition. In null space based LDA (NLDA), a well-known LDA extension, between-class distance is maximized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Shuai Zheng , Feiping Nie , Chris Ding , Heng Huang

Kernel alignment measures the degree of similarity between two kernels. In this paper, inspired from kernel alignment, we propose a new Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) formulation, kernel alignment LDA (kaLDA). We first define two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Shuai Zheng , Chris Ding

We revisit Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis (Deep LDA) from a likelihood-based perspective. While classical LDA is a simple Gaussian model with linear decision boundaries, attaching an LDA head to a neural encoder raises the question of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Maxat Tezekbayev , Arman Bolatov , Zhenisbek Assylbekov

Multi-group classification arises in many prediction and decision-making problems, including applications in epidemiology, genomics, finance, and image recognition. Although classification methods have advanced considerably, much of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-12 Yuchao Wang , Tianying Wang

In this paper, we propose a new variant of Linear Discriminant Analysis to overcome underlying drawbacks of traditional LDA and other LDA variants targeting problems involving imbalanced classes. Traditional LDA sets assumptions related to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Lei Xu , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

The use of quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) or its regularized version (R-QDA) for classification is often not recommended, due to its well-acknowledged high sensitivity to the estimation noise of the covariance matrix. This becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-15 Amine Bejaoui , Khalil Elkhalil , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed Slim Alouni , Tarek Al-Naffouri

Covariance and Hessian matrices have been analyzed separately in the literature for classification problems. However, integrating these matrices has the potential to enhance their combined power in improving classification performance. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Agus Hartoyo , Jan Argasiński , Aleksandra Trenk , Kinga Przybylska , Anna Błasiak , Alessandro Crimi

Linear discriminant analysis improves class separability but struggles with non-linearly separable data. To overcome this, we introduce Deep Discriminant Analysis (DDA), which directly optimizes the Fisher criterion utilizing deep networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Raül Pérez-Gonzalo , Andreas Espersen , Antonio Agudo

In many social, economical, biological and medical studies, one objective is to classify a subject into one of several classes based on a set of variables observed from the subject. Because the probability distribution of the variables is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Jun Shao , Yazhen Wang , Xinwei Deng , Sijian Wang

Classification is an important tool with many useful applications. Among the many classification methods, Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a traditional model-based approach which makes use of the covariance information.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-21 Qiyi Lu , Xingye Qiao

Classical discriminant analysis (DA) is based on the mean and empirical covariance matrix of each class, both of which are sensitive to outliers in the data. In the past the focus was on casewise outliers, that is, datapoints that lie far…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Can Hakan Dagidir , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Streaming Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) while proven in Class-incremental Learning deployments at the edge with limited classes (upto 1000), has not been proven for deployment in extreme classification scenarios. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Karan Shah , Vishruth Veerendranath , Anushka Hebbar , Raghavendra Bhat

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) based classifiers tend to falter in many practical settings where the training data size is smaller than, or comparable to, the number of features. As a remedy, different regularized LDA (RLDA) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alam Zaib , Tarig Ballal , Shahid Khattak , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successful in representing the fully-connected inferencing ability perceived to be seen in the human brain: they take full advantage of the hierarchy-style patterns commonly seen in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joshua Ball

In response to the challenges of data mining, discriminant analysis continues to evolve as a vital branch of statistics. Our recently introduced method of vertex discriminant analysis (VDA) is ideally suited to handle multiple categories…

Applications · Statistics 2011-01-06 Tong Tong Wu , Kenneth Lange

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a typical method for classification problems with large dimensions and small samples. There are various types of LDA methods that are based on the different types of estimators for the covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Jaehoan Kim , Hoyoung Park , Junyong Park

The Engineers' Salary Prediction Challenge requires classifying salary categories into three classes based on tabular data. The job description is represented as a 300-dimensional word embedding incorporated into the tabular features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Liam Ressel , Hamza A. A. Gardi

We present a novel approach to the formulation and the resolution of sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Our proposal, is based on penalized Optimal Scoring. It has an exact equivalence with penalized LDA, contrary to the multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Luis Francisco Sanchez Merchante , Yves Grandvalet , Gerrad Govaert