## A DC programming approach for sparse linear discriminant analysis.(English)Zbl 1327.90241

Do, Tien Van (ed.) et al., Advanced computational methods for knowledge engineering. Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on computer science, applied mathematics and applications, ICCSAMA 2014, Budapest, Hungary, May 8–9, 2014. Cham: Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-06568-7/pbk; 978-3-319-06569-4/ebook). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 282, 65-74 (2014).
Summary: We consider the supervised pattern classification in the high-dimensional setting, in which the number of features is much larger than the number of observations. We present a novel approach to the sparse linear discriminant analysis (LDA) using the zero-norm. The resulting optimization problem is non-convex, discontinuous and very hard to solve. We overcome the discontinuity by using an appropriate continuous approximation to zero-norm such that the resulting problem can be formulated as a DC (Difference of Convex functions) program to which DC programming and DC Algorithms (DCA) can be investigated. The computational results show the efficiency and the superiority of our approach versus the $$l_1$$ regularization model on both feature selection and classification.
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### MSC:

 90C26 Nonconvex programming, global optimization 90C30 Nonlinear programming
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