Matrix Decomposition

  • PCA: Principle Component Analysis
  • SVD: Singular Value Decomposition
  • LDA: Linear Discriminant Analysis
  • NMF: Non-negative Matrix Factorization
  • NMF: with Sparse Constraints
  • Linear Sparse Coding

Overview

$$A_{n \times m} = B_{n \times k}C_{k \times m}$$

  • $B$ captures the common features in $A$
  • $C$ carries specific characteristics of the original samples
  • $n \times m \rightarrow (n+m) \times k$
  • $ k<<n $

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  • In PCA: $B$ is eigenvectors
  • In SVD: $B$ is right (column) eigenvectors
  • In LDA: $B$ is discriminant directions
  • In NMF: $B$ is local features