crossrefMachine Learning2026-07-01
Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis Revisited
Maxat Tezekbayev, Rustem Takhanov, Arman Bolatov, Zhenisbek Assylbekov
Abstract We show that for unconstrained Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) classifiers, maximum-likelihood training admits pathological solutions in which class means drift together, covariances collapse, and the learned representation becomes almost non-discriminative. Conv…