Abstract
Linear and kernel discriminant analyses are popular approaches for supervised dimensionality reduction. Uncorrelated and regularized discriminant analyses have been proposed to overcome the singularity problem encountered by classical discriminant analysis. In this paper, we study the properties of kernel uncorrelated and regularized discriminant analyses, called KUDA and KRDA, respectively. In particular, we show that under a mild condition, both linear and kernel uncorrelated discriminant analysis project samples in the same class to a common vector in the dimensionality-reduced space. This implies that uncorrelated discriminant analysis may suffer from the overfitting problem if there are a large number of samples in each class. We show that as the regularization parameter in KRDA tends to zero, KRDA approaches KUDA. This shows that KUDA is a special case of KRDA and that regularization can be applied to overcome the overfitting problem in uncorrelated discriminant analysis. As the performance of KRDA depends on the value of the regularization parameter, we show that the matrix computations involved in KRDA can be simplified, so that a large number of candidate values can be cross-validated efficiently. Finally, we conduct experiments to evaluate the proposed theories and algorithms.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 4479466 |
Pages (from-to) | 1311-1321 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2008 |
Keywords
- Discriminant analysis
- Kernel methods
- Model selection
- Regularization
- Singular value decomposition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics