In this paper we formulate a probabilistic model for class-specific discriminant subspace learning. The proposed model can naturally incorporate the multi-modal structure of the negative class, which is neglected by existing class-specific methods. Moreover, it can be directly used to define a class-specific probabilis…
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Kernel discriminant analysis uses nonlinear embeddings to improve classification.
problem Limited effectiveness of linear discriminant analysis in capturing nonlinear features.
method Study of nonlinear embeddings in kernel discriminant analysis using polynomial and Gaussian kernels, solving generalized eigenvalue problems.
result Polynomial and Gaussian discriminants capture class differences through population moments and randomized projections.
A new LDA variant improves multi-label classification performance.
problem Improving multi-label classification performance.
method Saliency-based weights redefine between-class and within-class scatter matrices for multi-label classification.
result The proposed method leads to performance improvements in various multi-label classification problems.
This paper refines MMD for domain adaptation by balancing intra-class and inter-class distances.
problem Balancing intra-class and inter-class distances for better feature discriminability in domain adaptation.
method The paper theoretically proves two facts about MMD and proposes a novel discriminative MMD method to balance intra-class and inter-class distances.
result The proposed method improves feature discriminability and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
In this paper, we study the modeling and the classification of functional data presenting regime changes over time. We propose a new model-based functional mixture discriminant analysis approach based on a specific hidden process regression model that governs the regime changes over time. Our approach is particularly a…
Study on achiral Sol 3-manifolds with density results.
problem Understanding the achirality of commensurable classes of Sol 3-manifolds.
method Investigated commensurable classes of Sol 3-manifolds using discriminant invariants.
result Infinitely many achiral commensurable classes, but their density is 0.
Enhances model's ability to distinguish target domain by adding a new class.
problem Improving unsupervised domain adaptation models' discriminative power.
method Training model on data from a new class generated by GAN, repositioning current class data.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in various unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios.
DNLL loss improves deep LDA accuracy and consistency.
problem Pathological solutions in unconstrained Deep LDA.
method Introducing Discriminative Negative Log-Likelihood (DNLL) loss.
result Deep LDA trained with DNLL produces clean latent spaces and better calibrated probabilities.
Discriminative Multi-level Reconstruction under Compact Latent Space for One-Class Novelty Detectioncs.LG
DCAE learns compact latent representations for one-class novelty detection.
problem Learning compact latent representations for one-class novelty detection.
method DCAE learns compact and collapse-free latent representations through internal discriminative layers of GANs, reconstructing in-class data finely and exclusively.
result DCAE achieves state-of-the-art performance on novelty and adversarial example detection.
Discriminative classification with generative features: bridging Naive Bayes and logistic regressionstat.ML
Smart Bayes integrates generative and discriminative features for improved classification.
problem Improving classification performance by combining generative and discriminative modeling.
method Integrates generative likelihood-ratio features into a logistic-regression-style classifier.
result Often outperforms logistic regression and Naive Bayes in simulations and real data.
Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.
problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.
The paper proves finiteness for stable Lagrangian fibrations with a given divisor.
problem Finiteness of deformation classes of hyperkähler Lagrangian fibrations.
method Survey and proof of finiteness for stable Lagrangian fibrations with a given discriminant divisor.
result Finiteness for stable Lagrangian fibrations with a given discriminant divisor.
Statistical approaches for Functional Data Analysis concern the paradigm for which the individuals are functions or curves rather than finite dimensional vectors. In this paper, we particularly focus on the modeling and the classification of functional data which are temporal curves presenting regime changes over time.…
Extends Fisher's Discriminant Analysis for interval-valued data.
problem Classifying entities represented by intervals and histograms.
method Adapts Fisher's Discriminant Analysis using Moore's interval arithmetic and Mallows' distance.
result Discriminant directions for interval-valued data are numerically maximized.
We develop a novel method for training of GANs for unsupervised and class conditional generation of images, called Linear Discriminant GAN (LD-GAN). The discriminator of an LD-GAN is trained to maximize the linear separability between distributions of hidden representations of generated and targeted samples, while the …
Joint Domain Alignment and Discriminative Feature Learning for Unsupervised Deep Domain Adaptationcs.LG
Recently, considerable effort has been devoted to deep domain adaptation in computer vision and machine learning communities. However, most of existing work only concentrates on learning shared feature representation by minimizing the distribution discrepancy across different domains. Due to the fact that all the domai…
Feature learning forms the cornerstone for tackling challenging learning problems in domains such as speech, computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we consider a novel class of matrix and tensor-valued features, which can be pre-trained using unlabeled samples. We present efficient algorithms f…
In this paper, we solve the problem of adapting classifiers across domains. We consider the problem of domain adaptation for multi-class classification where we are provided a labeled set of examples in a source dataset and we are provided a target dataset with no supervision. In this setting, we propose an adversarial…
This paper presents a study on discriminative artificial neural network classifiers in the context of open-set speaker identification. Both 2-class and multi-class architectures are tested against the conventional Gaussian mixture model based classifier on enrolled speaker sets of different sizes. The performance evalu…
Feature learning forms the cornerstone for tackling challenging learning problems in domains such as speech, computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we consider a novel class of matrix and tensor-valued features, which can be pre-trained using unlabeled samples. We present efficient algorithms f…
A new method detects unknown classes and adapts to extra dimensions in high-dimensional classification.
problem Handling unknown classes and extra variables in high-dimensional classification.
method Dimension-Adaptive Mixture Discriminant Analysis (D-AMDA) using an EM algorithm for model estimation.
result The method can adapt to unknown classes and extra dimensions in high-dimensional data.
The study quantifies and compares aleatoric and epistemic discrimination in ML models.
problem Sources of discrimination in ML models and their impact on performance.
method Quantifying aleatoric and epistemic discrimination using statistical experiments and model accuracy.
result State-of-the-art fairness interventions are effective at removing epistemic discrimination but not aleatoric discrimination in datasets with missing values.
Neural nets trained with linear discriminant initialization converge faster and more accurately.
problem Training feed-forward neural networks efficiently and accurately.
method Initialize first layer weights with linear discriminants.
result Asymptotic higher accuracy and faster convergence.
Paper introduces negative margin loss for better few-shot classification accuracy.
problem Improving few-shot classification accuracy with metric learning.
method Introduces negative margin loss and analyzes its impact on feature discriminability.
result Negative margin loss outperforms regular softmax loss on few-shot classification benchmarks.
In deep neural network, the cross-entropy loss function is commonly used for classification. Minimizing cross-entropy is equivalent to maximizing likelihood under assumptions of uniform feature and class distributions. It belongs to generative training criteria which does not directly discriminate correct class from co…
We present a novel approach to the formulation and the resolution of sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Our proposal, is based on penalized Optimal Scoring. It has an exact equivalence with penalized LDA, contrary to the multi-class approaches based on the regression of class indicator that have been proposed s…
While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have empirically produced impressive results on learning complex real-world distributions, recent works have shown that they suffer from lack of diversity or mode collapse. The theoretical work of Arora et al. suggests a dilemma about GANs' statistical properties: powerful d…
Recent studies in the literature have paid much attention to the sparsity in linear classification tasks. One motivation of imposing sparsity assumption on the linear discriminant direction is to rule out the noninformative features, making hardly contribution to the classification problem. Most of those work were focu…
Discriminative pattern mining is an essential task of data mining. This task aims to discover patterns which occur more frequently in a class than other classes in a class-labeled dataset. This type of patterns is valuable in various domains such as bioinformatics, data classification. In this paper, we propose a novel…
Similarity-based clustering and semi-supervised learning methods separate the data into clusters or classes according to the pairwise similarity between the data, and the pairwise similarity is crucial for their performance. In this paper, we propose a novel discriminative similarity learning framework which learns dis…
A new weighted FDA method improves face recognition accuracy.
problem Equal treatment of all class pairs in FDA leads to suboptimal performance.
method Cosine-weighted and automatically weighted FDA methods are proposed.
result Improved face recognition accuracy through weighted FDA.
This paper discusses a new type of discriminant analysis based on the orthogonal projection of data onto a generalized difference subspace (GDS). In our previous work, we have demonstrated that GDS projection works as the quasi-orthogonalization of class subspaces, which is an effective feature extraction for subspace …
The lack of proper class discrimination among the Hyperspectral (HS) data points poses a potential challenge in HS classification. To address this issue, this paper proposes an optimal geometry-aware transformation for enhancing the classification accuracy. The underlying idea of this method is to obtain a linear proje…
Extends L2-norm LDA to 2D inputs using Bhattacharyya bound.
problem L2-norm LDA loses useful image information for 2D inputs.
method 2DBLDA maximizes matrix-based between-class distance and minimizes within-class distance, optimizing Bhattacharyya error bound.
result 2DBLDA improves image recognition and face reconstruction.
Designs an MLP from LDA for multi-Gaussian class classification.
problem Classifying inputs with multiple Gaussian distributions.
method Interprets MLP as generalized LDA, using LDAs for half-space partitioning, neurons for subspace isolation, and merging for class-wise representation.
result Automatic feedforward design for MLP architecture and weights.
We propose a novel, projection based way to incorporate the conditional information into the discriminator of GANs that respects the role of the conditional information in the underlining probabilistic model. This approach is in contrast with most frameworks of conditional GANs used in application today, which use the …
Maximizes coding rate difference for robust, discriminative features.
problem Learning robust, discriminative features from high-dimensional data.
method Maximal Coding Rate Reduction (MCR^2) principle.
result Significantly more robust to label corruptions in classification.
Recent work has shown that exploiting relations between labels improves the performance of multi-label classification. We propose a novel framework based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) to model label dependency. The discriminator learns to model label dependency by discriminating real and generated label set…
MILDA uses unlabelled data to compute LDA projections.
problem Training LDA models with unlabelled data.
method Minimal prior information to compute LDA projection vector.
result MILDA closely matches supervised LDA performance and adapts to non-stationary data.
We extend Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to the semi-supervised context by forcing the discriminator network to output class labels. We train a generative model G and a discriminator D on a dataset with inputs belonging to one of N classes. At training time, D is made to predict which of N+1 classes the input b…
Proposes TFDF to learn transferable and discriminative features for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Difficult to induce supervised classifier without labeled data in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method TFDF optimizes transferability and discriminability by aligning distributions and minimizing class confusion.
result TFDF achieves better performance on real-world datasets compared to existing methods.
Alternating direction method of multipliers for penalized zero-variance discriminant analysisstat.ML
We consider the task of classification in the high dimensional setting where the number of features of the given data is significantly greater than the number of observations. To accomplish this task, we propose a heuristic, called sparse zero-variance discriminant analysis (SZVD), for simultaneously performing linear …
New findings show fixed-kernel discriminators are weaker than feature-learning ones.
problem Comparing performance of fixed-kernel and feature-learning discriminators.
method Using function classes and , constructing pairs of distributions, and linking IPMs with sliced Wasserstein distances.
result Fixed-kernel IPM and SD cannot discriminate certain distributions that feature-learning IPM and SD can.
Kernel approximation methods create explicit, low-dimensional kernel feature maps to deal with the high computational and memory complexity of standard techniques. This work studies a supervised kernel learning methodology to optimize such mappings. We utilize the Discriminant Information criterion, a measure of class …
EGO-MDA identifies optimal spectral-bands for process discrimination.
problem Optimal spectral-bands for process discrimination.
method EGO-MDA, an unsupervised method using EGO and Mixture Discriminant Analysis.
result EGO-MDA achieves at least 70% improvement in median deviance.
Within a broad class of generative adversarial networks, we show that discriminator optimization process increases a lower bound of the dual cost function for the Wasserstein distance between the target distribution and the generator distribution . It implies that the trained discriminator can approximate opti…
Generalized dual discriminator GANs improve upon traditional GANs by using two discriminators and a flexible loss function.
problem Mode collapse in GANs.
method Introducing dual discriminator -GANs and extending the approach to arbitrary functions.
result The approach reduces the optimization problem to a linear combination of an -divergence and a reverse -divergence.
Sparse coding has been popularly used as an effective data representation method in various applications, such as computer vision, medical imaging and bioinformatics, etc. However, the conventional sparse coding algorithms and its manifold regularized variants (graph sparse coding and Laplacian sparse coding), learn th…