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The Geometry Of Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis

2003

Technical Report

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Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a classical multivariate method concerned with describing linear dependencies between sets of variables. After a short exposition of the linear sample CCA problem and its analytical solution, the article proceeds with a detailed characterization of its geometry. Projection operators are used to illustrate the relations between canonical vectors and variates. The article then addresses the problem of CCA between spaces spanned by objects mapped into kernel feature spaces. An exact solution for this kernel canonical correlation (KCCA) problem is derived from a geometric point of view. It shows that the expansion coefficients of the canonical vectors in their respective feature space can be found by linear CCA in the basis induced by kernel principal component analysis. The effect of mappings into higher dimensional feature spaces is considered critically since it simplifies the CCA problem in general. Then two regularized variants of KCCA are discussed. Relations to other methods are illustrated, e.g., multicategory kernel Fisher discriminant analysis, kernel principal component regression and possible applications thereof in blind source separation.

Author(s): Kuss, M. and Graepel, T.
Number (issue): 108
Year: 2003
Month: May
Day: 0

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Technical Report (techreport)

Institution: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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BibTex

@techreport{2233,
  title = {The Geometry Of Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis},
  author = {Kuss, M. and Graepel, T.},
  number = {108},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  institution = {Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, T{\"u}bingen, Germany},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = may,
  year = {2003},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {5}
}