@CONFERENCE\{IMM2010-05912, author = "M. M{\o}rup and L. K. Hansen", title = "Archetypal Analysis for Machine Learning", year = "2010", booktitle = "Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), {IEEE} Workshop on", volume = "", series = "", editor = "", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5912-full.html", abstract = "Archetypal analysis (AA) proposed by Cutler and Breiman in [1] estimates the principal convex hull of a data set. As such {AA} favors features that constitute representative ’corners’ of the data, i.e. distinct aspects or archetypes. We will show that {AA} enjoys the interpretability of clustering - without being limited to hard assignment and the uniqueness of {SVD} - without being limited to orthogonal representations. In order to do large scale {AA,} we derive an efficient algorithm based on projected gradient as well as an initialization procedure inspired by the {FURTHESTFIRST} approach widely used for {K-}means [2]. We demonstrate that the {AA} model is relevant for feature extraction and dimensional reduction for a large variety of machine learning problems taken from computer vision, neuroimaging, text mining and collaborative filtering." }