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This work studies the theoretical rules of feature selection in linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and a new feature selection method is proposed for sparse linear discriminant analysis. An $l_1$ minimization method is used to select the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-23 Cheng Wang , Longbing Cao , Baiqi Miao

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), a traditional classification tool, suffers from limitations such as sensitivity to noise and computational challenges when dealing with non-invertible within-class scatter matrices. Traditional stepwise…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-26 Siyu Wang , Kehui Yao

We analyse quantile temporal-difference learning (QTD), a distributional reinforcement learning algorithm that has proven to be a key component in several successful large-scale applications of reinforcement learning. Despite these…

Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA) is one of the essential tools for feature extraction and classification. In addition, it motivates the development of many improved techniques based on the FDA to adapt to different problems or data types.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Thu Nguyen , Quang M. Le , Son N. T. Tu , Binh T. Nguyen

Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA) is a widely used method for classification and dimensionality reduction. When the number of predictor variables greatly exceeds the number of observations, one of the alternatives for conventional FDA is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Agniva Chowdhury , Jiasen Yang , Petros Drineas

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known linear dimension-reduction method that has been widely used in data analysis and modeling. It is an unsupervised learning technique that identifies a suitable linear subspace for the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-10 Shaojie Xu , Joel Vaughan , Jie Chen , Agus Sudjianto , Vijayan Nair

These notes are an overview of some classical linear methods in Multivariate Data Analysis. This is a good old domain, well established since the 60's, and refreshed timely as a key step in statistical learning. It can be presented as part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Alain Franc

This paper investigates the effectiveness of using the Random Projection Ensemble (RPE) approach in Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) for ultrahigh-dimensional classification problems. Classical methods such as Linear Discriminant…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-10 Annesha Deb , Minerva Mukhopadhyay , Subhajit Dutta

Multilinear Discriminant Analysis (MDA) is a powerful dimension reduction method specifically formulated to deal with tensor data. Precisely, the goal of MDA is to find mode-specific projections that optimally separate tensor data from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-03 F. Dufrenois , A. El Ichi , K. Jbilou

We introduce a new method of performing high dimensional discriminant analysis, which we call multiDA. We achieve this by constructing a hybrid model that seamlessly integrates a multiclass diagonal discriminant analysis model and feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Sarah Elizabeth Romanes , John Thomas Ormerod , Jean YH Yang

Linear regression is a data analysis technique, which is categorized as supervised learning. By utilizing known data, we can predict unknown data. Recently, researchers have explored the use of quantum annealing (QA) to perform linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Asuka Koura , Takashi Imoto , Katsuki Ura , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Functional linear discriminant analysis (FLDA) is a powerful tool that extends LDA-mediated multiclass classification and dimension reduction to univariate time-series functions. However, in the age of large multivariate and incomplete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rahul Bordoloi , Clémence Réda , Orell Trautmann , Saptarshi Bej , Olaf Wolkenhauer

We show that for unconstrained Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) classifiers, maximum-likelihood training admits pathological solutions in which class means drift together, covariances collapse, and the learned representation becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Maxat Tezekbayev , Rustem Takhanov , Arman Bolatov , Zhenisbek Assylbekov

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is commonly used for dimensionality reduction in pattern recognition and statistics. It is a supervised method that aims to find the most discriminant space of reduced dimension that can be further used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Navya Nagananda , Breton Minnehan , Andreas Savakis

Transfer learning aims to learn robust classifiers for the target domain by leveraging knowledge from a source domain. Since the source and the target domains are usually from different distributions, existing methods mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Wenjie Feng , Han Yu , Meiyu Huang , Qiang Yang

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a three-level hierarchical Bayesian model for topic inference. In spite of its great success, inferring the latent topic distribution with LDA is time-consuming. Motivated by the transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Dongxu Zhang , Tianyi Luo , Dong Wang , Rong Liu

We consider the linear discriminant analysis problem in the high-dimensional settings. In this work, we propose PANDA(PivotAl liNear Discriminant Analysis), a tuning-insensitive method in the sense that it requires very little effort to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Ethan X. Fang , Yajun Mei , Yuyang Shi , Qunzhi Xu , Tuo Zhao

There has been a great effort to transfer linear discriminant techniques that operate on vector data to high-order data, generally referred to as Multilinear Discriminant Analysis (MDA) techniques. Many existing works focus on maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Dat Thanh Tran , Moncef Gabbouj , Alexandros Iosifidis

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is one of the oldest and most popular linear methods for supervised classification problems. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to compute the exact projection vector from LDA models based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Nicolas Heintz , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand

This is a tutorial and survey paper on metric learning. Algorithms are divided into spectral, probabilistic, and deep metric learning. We first start with the definition of distance metric, Mahalanobis distance, and generalized Mahalanobis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-25 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley