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We consider multi-class classification problems for high dimensional data. Following the idea of reduced-rank linear discriminant analysis (LDA), we introduce a new dimension reduction tool with a flavor of supervised principal component…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-28 Yue Selena Niu , Ning Hao , Bin Dong

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

Classical linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is based on squared Frobenious norm and hence is sensitive to outliers and noise. To improve the robustness of LDA, in this paper, we introduce capped l_{2,1}-norm of a matrix, which employs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-05 Jiakou Liu , Xiong Xiong , Pei-Wei Ren , Da Zhao , Chun-Na Li , Yuan-Hai Shao

Linear and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (LDA and QDA) are well-known classical methods but can heavily suffer from non-Gaussian distributions and/or contaminated datasets, mainly because of the underlying Gaussian assumption that is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Pierre Houdouin , Matthieu Jonckheere , Frederic Pascal

While the Implicit Bias(or Implicit Regularization) of standard loss functions has been studied, the optimization geometry induced by discriminative metric-learning objectives remains largely unexplored.To the best of our knowledge, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiawen Li

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

This tutorial explains Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) as two fundamental classification methods in statistical and probabilistic learning. We start with the optimization of decision boundary on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Benyamin Ghojogh , Mark Crowley

In recent years many sparse linear discriminant analysis methods have been proposed for high-dimensional classification and variable selection. However, most of these proposals focus on binary classification and they are not directly…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-04-23 Qing Mai , Yi Yang , Hui Zou

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

We present a supervised dimensionality reduction technique called Convex Linear Discriminant Analysis (ConvexLDA). The proposed model optimizes a multi-objective cost function by balancing two complementary terms. The first term pulls the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Sai Vijay Kumar Surineela , Prathyusha Kanakamalla , Harigovind Harikumar , Tomojit Ghosh

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

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

Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA) is a subspace learning method which minimizes and maximizes the intra- and inter-class scatters of data, respectively. Although, in FDA, all the pairs of classes are treated the same way, some classes are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Benyamin Ghojogh , Milad Sikaroudi , H. R. Tizhoosh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Dimensionality reduction is a crucial step for pattern recognition and data mining tasks to overcome the curse of dimensionality. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a traditional technique for unsupervised dimensionality reduction, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Zan Gao , Guotai Zhang , Feiping Nie , Hua Zhang

Recent studies in the literature have paid much attention to the sparsity in linear classification tasks. One motivation of imposing sparsity assumption on the linear discriminant direction is to rule out the noninformative features, making…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-13 Dong Xia

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Despite the effectiveness of self-training techniques in UDA, they struggle to learn each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wangkai Li , Rui Sun , Bohao Liao , Zhaoyang Li , Tianzhu Zhang

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

Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA), as the extension of Pawlak's Rough Set theory, is effective and fundamentally important in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). In previous DRSA models, the definitions of the upper and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Junyi Chai , James N. K. Liu

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to improve the classification performance on an unlabeled target domain by leveraging information from a fully labeled source domain. Recent approaches explore domain-invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ni Xiao , Lei Zhang