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Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a well-known method for dimensionality reduction and classification. Previous studies have also extended the binary-class case into multi-classes. However, many applications, such as object detection…
A PCA based sequence-to-vector (seq2vec) dimension reduction method for the text classification problem, called the tree-structured multi-stage principal component analysis (TMPCA) is presented in this paper. Theoretical analysis and…
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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…
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