Sparse multinomial kernel discriminant analysis (sMKDA)

  • Authors:
  • Robert F. Harrison;Kitsuchart Pasupa

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK;School of Electronics and Computer Science, The University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Dimensionality reduction via canonical variate analysis (CVA) is important for pattern recognition and has been extended variously to permit more flexibility, e.g. by ''kernelizing'' the formulation. This can lead to over-fitting, usually ameliorated by regularization. Here, a method for sparse, multinomial kernel discriminant analysis (sMKDA) is proposed, using a sparse basis to control complexity. It is based on the connection between CVA and least-squares, and uses forward selection via orthogonal least-squares to approximate a basis, generalizing a similar approach for binomial problems. Classification can be performed directly via minimum Mahalanobis distance in the canonical variates. sMKDA achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of accuracy and sparseness on 11 benchmark datasets.