An optimization criterion for generalized discriminant analysis on undersampled problems

Jieping Ye, Ravi Janardan, Cheong Hee Park, Haesun Park

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Abstract

An optimization criterion is presented for discriminant analysis. The criterion extends the optimization criteria of the classical Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) through the use of the pseudoinverse when the scatter matrices are singular. It is applicable regardless of the relative sizes of the data dimension and sample size, overcoming a limitation of classical LDA. The optimization problem can be solved analytically by applying the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD) technique. The pseudoinverse has been suggested and used for undersampled problems in the past, where the data dimension exceeds the number of data points. The criterion proposed in this paper provides a theoretical justification for this procedure. An approximation algorithm for the GSVD-based approach is also presented. It reduces the computational complexity by finding subclusters of each cluster and uses their centroids to capture the structure of each cluster. This reduced problem yields much smaller matrices to which the GSVD can be applied efficiently. Experiments on text data, with up to 7,000 dimensions, show that the approximation algorithm produces results that are close to those produced by the exact algorithm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)982-994
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume26
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2004
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics

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