A Flexible and Efficient Algorithm for Regularized Fisher Discriminant Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Zhihua Zhang;Guang Dai;Michael I. Jordan

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310027;College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310027;Department of Statistics and Division of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA 94720

  • Venue:
  • ECML PKDD '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Fisher linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and its kernel extension--kernel discriminant analysis (KDA)--are well known methods that consider dimensionality reduction and classification jointly. While widely deployed in practical problems, there are still unresolved issues surrounding their efficient implementation and their relationship with least mean squared error procedures. In this paper we address these issues within the framework of regularized estimation. Our approach leads to a flexible and efficient implementation of LDA as well as KDA. We also uncover a general relationship between regularized discriminant analysis and ridge regression. This relationship yields variations on conventional LDA based on the pseudoinverse and a direct equivalence to an ordinary least squares estimator. Experimental results on a collection of benchmark data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.