MMLF: Multi-Metric Latent Feature Analysis for High-Dimensional and Incomplete Data

High-dimensional and incomplete (HDI) data are omnipresent in a variety of Big Data-related applications. Latent feature analysis (LFA) is a typical representation learning method that can extract useful yet latent knowledge from HDI data via low-rank embedding. Existing LFA-based models mostly adopt a single-metric-based modeling strategy, where the representation designed for the embedding
Loss
function is fixed and exclusive. However, real-world HDI data are commonly heterogeneous and have large diverse underlying patterns, making a single-metric-based model cannot represent such HDI data in a comprehensive and unbiased fashion. Motivated by this discovery, this article proposes a multi-metric latent feature (MMLF) model whose ideas are two-fold: 1) two vector spaces and three
L_p
-norms are simultaneously adopted to develop six LFA variants, each of which possesses a unique merit, and 2) all the variants are aggregated with a tailored, self-adaptive weighting strategy. As such, the proposed MMLF enjoys the merits originated from a set of disparate metric spaces all at once, achieving the comprehensive and unbiased representation of HDI data. Theoretical study guarantees that MMLF attains evident performance gain. Extensive experiments on ten real-world HDI matrices, spanning a wide range of industrial and scientific areas, verify that the proposed MMLF significantly outperforms nine state-of-the-art, shallow and deep counterparts.