# Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classification

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We propose a matrix coefficient logistic regression for the classification of single-trial ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) signals. The method works in the feature space of all the variances and covariances between electrodes. The problem is formulated in a single convex optimization problem with the spectral $\ell_1$-regularization of the coefficient matrix. In addition, we propose an efficient optimization algorithm based on a simple interior-point method. The convex duality plays the key role in this implementation. Classification results on 162 Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) datasets show significant improvement in the classification accuracy against $\ell_2$-regularized logistic regression, rank=2 approximated logistic regression as well as Common Spatial Pattern (CSP) based classifier, which is a popular technique in BCI . Connections to LASSO , GP classification with a second order polynomial kernel, and SVM are discussed.

This talk is part of the Machine Learning @ CUED series.