Mixture weight influence on kernel entropy component analysis and semi-supervised learning using the Lasso

The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, we show that the newly developed spectral method known as kernel entropy component analysis (kernel ECA) captures cluster structure, which is very important in semi-supervised learning, and we provide an analysis showing how mixture weights influence kernel ECA in a mixture of cluster components setting. Second, we develop a semi-supervised kernel ECA classifier based on the Lasso framework, and report promising results compared to the state-of-the art.