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- Title
The matrix ridge approximation: algorithms and applications.
- Authors
Zhang, Zhihua
- Abstract
We are concerned with an approximation problem for a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix due to motivation from a class of nonlinear machine learning methods. We discuss an approximation approach that we call matrix ridge approximation. In particular, we define the matrix ridge approximation as an incomplete matrix factorization plus a ridge term. Moreover, we present probabilistic interpretations using a normal latent variable model and a Wishart model for this approximation approach. The idea behind the latent variable model in turn leads us to an efficient EM iterative method for handling the matrix ridge approximation problem. Finally, we illustrate the applications of the approximation approach in multivariate data analysis. Empirical studies in spectral clustering and Gaussian process regression show that the matrix ridge approximation with the EM iteration is potentially useful.
- Subjects
APPROXIMATION theory; MATRICES (Mathematics); MACHINE learning; FACTORIZATION; ITERATIVE methods (Mathematics); MULTIVARIATE analysis; GAUSSIAN processes
- Publication
Machine Learning, 2014, Vol 97, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
0885-6125
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10994-013-5431-y