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Derivation of Fischer's Linear Discriminant

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The derivation was completed in this lecture.

Recall from last lecture

Last time, we considered

$ J(\vec{w}) = \frac{\vec{w}^t S_B \vec{w}}{\vec{w}^t S_W \vec{w}} $


which is explicit function of $ \vec{w} $

One can do this because numerator of $ J(\vec{w}) $ can be written as

$ \mid \tilde m_1 - \tilde m_2 \mid^2 = \mid w \cdot (m_1 - m_2) \mid^2 = w^t (m_1 - m_2) (m_1^t - m_2^t) w $

$ \rightarrow S_B = (m_1 - m_2) (m_1^t - m_2^t) $


In a same way, denominator can be written as

$ \tilde s_1^2 + \tilde s_2^2 = \sum_{y_i \in class \ i} (w \cdot y_i - \tilde m_1)^2 = \sum w^t (y_i - m_i)(y_i^t - m_i^t) w $

$ = w^t \left[ \sum (y_i - m_i)(y_i^t - m_i^t) \right] w $

$ \rightarrow S_W = \sum_{y_i \in class \ i} (y_i - m_i)(y_i^t - m_i^t) $


Fisher Linear Discriminant

.. |omega_0| image:: tex

alt: tex: \omega_0

.. |generalized_evalue_prob| image:: tex

alt: tex: S_B\omega_0=\lambda S_W\omega_0


.. |standard_evalue_prob| image:: tex

alt: tex: {S_W}^{-1}S_B\omega_0=\lambda\omega_0


- Maximizing J as defined in previous class It is a known result that J is maximum at $ \omega_0 $ such that $ S_B\omega_0=\lambda S_W\omega_0 $. This is the "Generalized eigenvalue problem.

.. |notsingular| image:: tex

alt: tex: |S_W|\neq 0

Note that if $ |S_W|\neq 0 $, then $ {S_W}^{-1}S_B\omega_0=\lambda\omega_0 $. It can be written as the "Standard eigenvalue problem". The only difficulty (which is a big difficulty when the feature space dimension is large) is that matrix inversion is very unstable.

.. |cst_meandifference| image:: tex

alt: tex: S_B\omega_0=(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})^T\omega_0=cst.(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})

.. |reduced_prob| image:: tex

alt: tex: {S_W}^{-1}cst.(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})=\lambda\omega_0

.. |value_omega_0| image:: tex

alt: tex: \omega_0={S_W}^{-1}(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})

Observe that $ S_B\omega_0=(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})^T\omega_0=cst.(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2}) $. Therefore the standard eigenvalue problem as presented above becomes $ {S_W}^{-1}cst.(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})=\lambda\omega_0 $. From this equation, value of $ \omega_0 $ can easily be obtained, as $ \omega_0={S_W}^{-1}(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2}) $ or any constant multiple of this. Note that magnitude of $ omega_0 $ is not important, the direction it represents is important.

Fischer's Linear Discriminant in Projected Coordinates

    • Claim**

.. |claim1| image:: tex

alt: tex: \vec{c}=\omega_0={S_W}^{-1}(\vec{m1}-\vec{m2})

.. |prob_matrix1| image:: tex

alt: tex: \mathbf{Y}\vec{c}=\vec{b}

.. |opt_b_value1| image:: tex

alt: tex: \vec{b}=(d/d_1, \cdots, <d_1 times>, d/(d-d_1), \cdots, <(d-d_1) times>)^T

|claim1|

is the solution to |prob_matrix1| with |opt_b_value1|


Here is an animation of the 1D example given in class on projections

.. image:: projection1.gif

.. |1DEx1| image:: tex

alt: tex: \vec{\omega} \bullet y_i + \omega_0 > 0

.. |1DEx2| image:: tex

alt: tex: \vec{\omega} \bullet y_i + \omega_0 < 0

.. |1DEx3| image:: tex

alt: tex: \vec{\omega} \bullet y_i < 0

.. |1DEx4| image:: tex

alt: tex: \vec{\omega} \bullet y_i > 0

Explanation *(feel free to change / correct)*

starts with |1DEx1| for class 1 and |1DEx2| for class 2

the data points are then projected onto an axis at 1 which results in

|1DEx4| for class 1 and |1DEx3| for class 2

one class is then projected onto an axis at -1 which results in

|1DEx4| for all yi


Support Vector Machines (SVM)

A support vector for a hyperplane (vector c) with margin (bi >= b) is a sample (yio) such that (*yio = b.) (someone please fix with mathtype)

.. image:: lec11_sv_pic1.bmp .. image:: lec11_sv_pic2.bmp

Support Vector Machines are a two step process: 1) Preprocessing - X1,...,Xd features in kth dimensional real space is mapped to features in n dimensional real space where n>>k. 2) Linear Classifier - separates classes in n dimensional real space via hyperplane. - Support Vectors - for finding the hyperplane with the biggest margins. - Kernel - to simplify computation (This is key for real world applications)


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