Transfer Learning for Linear Discriminant Analysis with a Shared Classification Signal

arXiv:2607.06936 · stat.ME, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-07-08 · Read on arXiv

Yonghan Zhang, Yimeng Fan, Wenya Luo, Jiang Hu

stat.ME, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-07-08

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Transfer Learning — 21× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Accuracy — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Polarization — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Class Imbalance — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Exchangeability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Minimax Optimality — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Orthogonal Projection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• signal-to-noise ratios — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Transfer learning via Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis
• Structural Effect and Spectral Enhancement of High-Dimensional Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis

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