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48 results for Exact PCA

pPCA speeds up PCA by priming initial estimates for faster, more accurate results.

problem Improving the speed and accuracy of principal component analysis (PCA).
method pPCA is a two-step algorithm: first, an approximate-PCA method primes the data, then exact PCA is applied in the span of the initial estimate.
result pPCA improves accuracy significantly with a small computational cost, outperforming other methods across various datasets.

Paper optimizes PCA for fairness using MMD and Stiefel manifold optimization.

problem Fair principal component analysis (PCA) to minimize MMD between protected classes.
method Formulates fair PCA as non-convex optimization over Stiefel manifold, solves using REPMS with theoretical guarantees.
result Our approach outperforms prior work in fairness, explained variance, and runtime.

Sparse versions of principal component analysis (PCA) have imposed themselves as simple, yet powerful ways of selecting relevant features of high-dimensional data in an unsupervised manner. However, when several sparse principal components are computed, the interpretation of the selected variables is difficult since ea…

2016-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently approximates Sparse PCA with significant speedups and minor error.

problem Sparse Principal Component Analysis (Sparse PCA) is NP-hard and computationally expensive.
method Approximates the covariance matrix with block-diagonal form, solves sub-problems in each block, and reconstructs the solution.
result Significant computational speedups with minor additive error.

PCA++ improves robustness to background noise in contrastive learning.

problem Recovering shared signal subspaces from positive pairs in high-dimensional data with structured background noise.
method PCA++ uses hard uniformity-constrained contrastive learning to enforce identity covariance on projected features.
result PCA++ outperforms standard PCA and alignment-only PCA+ in simulations and real-world datasets.

This paper proposes exact and approximation algorithms for Sparse PCA, improving interpretability and scalability.

problem Selecting a prespecified-size principal submatrix from a covariance matrix to maximize its largest eigenvalue.
method Proposes two exact mixed-integer SDPs and a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) for SPCA, analyzes theoretical optimality gaps, and develops approximation algorithms.
result The proposed algorithms achieve strong theoretical optimality and effective scalability, with continuous relaxations close to optimality and MILP solving small to medium-size instances.

We study rank-1 {L1-norm-based TUCKER2} (L1-TUCKER2) decomposition of 3-way tensors, treated as a collection of NN D×MD \times M matrices that are to be jointly decomposed. Our contributions are as follows. i) We prove that the problem is equivalent to combinatorial optimization over NN antipodal-binary variables. ii)…

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Singular Value Decomposition (and Principal Component Analysis) is one of the most widely used techniques for dimensionality reduction: successful and efficiently computable, it is nevertheless plagued by a well-known, well-documented sensitivity to outliers. Recent work has considered the setting where each point has …

2010-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved online PCA algorithm learns from evolving norm of parameter vector.

problem Discarding evolving norm in online PCA leads to suboptimal learning.
method Implicitly Normalized Online PCA (INO-PCA) removes unit-norm constraint.
result Parameter norm evolution leads to improved learning behavior.

Study of Langevin dynamics for tensor PCA recovery in high dimensions.

problem Recovering hidden signal vectors (spikes) from noisy Gaussian tensor observations.
method Langevin dynamics approach for nonconvex optimization.
result Sample complexity matches the single-spike case but degrades for all spikes.

SGD recovers multiple signal vectors in noisy tensor PCA.

problem Estimating multiple signal vectors from noisy tensor observations.
method Online stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in high dimensions with detailed analysis of correlations.
result Sequential elimination of correlations allows recovery of all spikes from Np2N^{p-2} samples.

Kernel PCA explains self-attention mechanisms in deep learning models.

problem Understanding and explaining self-attention mechanisms in deep learning models.
method Deriving self-attention from kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA).
result RPC-Attention, a robust attention mechanism, outperforms softmax attention in various tasks.

We propose a new method for robust PCA -- the task of recovering a low-rank matrix from sparse corruptions that are of unknown value and support. Our method involves alternating between projecting appropriate residuals onto the set of low-rank matrices, and the set of sparse matrices; each projection is {\em non-convex…

2014-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a Bayesian model selection approach to estimate the intrinsic dimensionality of a high-dimensional dataset. To this end, we introduce a novel formulation of the probabilisitic principal component analysis model based on a normal-gamma prior distribution. In this context, we exhibit a closed-form expression o…

2017-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Commonly used in computer vision and other applications, robust PCA represents an algorithmic attempt to reduce the sensitivity of classical PCA to outliers. The basic idea is to learn a decomposition of some data matrix of interest into low rank and sparse components, the latter representing unwanted outliers. Althoug…

2015-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new method for exact recovery in robust tensor principal component analysis.

problem Exact recovery of low-rank and sparse components in tensors.
method Proposes a new method based on tensor-tensor product and t-SVD to solve a convex optimization problem.
result Exact recovery achieved in a deterministic fashion without randomness assumptions.

This paper sharpens privacy guarantees for high-dimensional PCA under differential privacy.

problem Understanding the exact privacy loss in high-dimensional PCA with differential privacy.
method Analyzes the exponential mechanism in a model-free setting for high-dimensional PCA.
result Sharp utility and privacy characterizations in high dimensions show the difficulty of detecting a target individual's presence.

This paper sets fundamental limits for rank-one matrix estimation with varying noise levels.

problem Estimating a rank-one matrix from Gaussian observations with different noise levels across blocks.
method Novel reduction from heterogeneous noise to homogeneous noise, proving asymptotic error bounds.
result Asymptotically exact formulas for minimum mean-squared error in estimating rank-one matrix and factors.

We study the basic problem of robust subspace recovery. That is, we assume a data set that some of its points are sampled around a fixed subspace and the rest of them are spread in the whole ambient space, and we aim to recover the fixed underlying subspace. We first estimate "robust inverse sample covariance" by solvi…

2011-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove a \emph{query complexity} lower bound on rank-one principal component analysis (PCA). We consider an oracle model where, given a symmetric matrix MRd×dM \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}, an algorithm is allowed to make TT \emph{exact} queries of the form w(i)=Mv(i)w^{(i)} = Mv^{(i)} for i{1,,T}i \in \{1,\dots,T\}, where v(i)v^{(i)}

2017-04-14abs ↗pdf ↗

KAN-PCA improves asset return analysis by capturing more variance than classical PCA during market crises.

problem Inefficient classical PCA during market crises when correlations between assets change dramatically.
method KAN-PCA uses KAN (Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) with B-spline functions to learn nonlinear projections.
result KAN-PCA achieves a higher reconstruction R^2 (66.57%) compared to classical PCA (62.99%) on 20 S&P 500 stocks.

New algorithm solves fair PCA, robust PCA, and sparse PCA problems efficiently.

problem Fair Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) to ensure fairness in PCA solutions.
method Iterative MM algorithm with SDP reformulation to quadratic program.
result Algorithm monotonically improves fairness objectives at each iteration.

A new method for fair PCA ensures balanced error across groups.

problem Balancing approximation error across different groups in multi-group data.
method Iterative method to compute fair principal components minimizing max group-wise reconstruction error.
result Preserves the containment property of standard PCA and reduces to standard PCA for single-group data.

This is a detailed tutorial paper which explains the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Supervised PCA (SPCA), kernel PCA, and kernel SPCA. We start with projection, PCA with eigen-decomposition, PCA with one and multiple projection directions, properties of the projection matrix, reconstruction error minimization, an…

2019-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper decomposes unsupervised learning's generalization error into model, data, and variance components.

problem Understanding the components of unsupervised learning's generalization error.
method Information-geometric decomposition of the Kullback-Leibler generalization error.
result The optimal rank in εε-PCA is the noise floor, balancing model-error gain and data-bias cost.

Proposes σσ-PCA to learn identifiable linear transformations without whitening.

problem Cannot identify axes with equal variances in PCA.
method Unified model for linear and nonlinear PCA, introducing a missing piece to eliminate rotational indeterminacy.
result Eliminates subspace rotational indeterminacy in PCA.

This work studies the strong duality of non-convex matrix factorization problems: we show that under certain dual conditions, these problems and its dual have the same optimum. This has been well understood for convex optimization, but little was known for non-convex problems. We propose a novel analytical framework an…

2017-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

EB-PCA reduces noise in high-dimensional PCA by estimating a joint prior distribution.

problem High-dimensional PCA noise in samples comparable to or larger than data.
method Empirical Bayes PCA using Kiefer-Wolfowitz MLE, random matrix theory, and AMP algorithm.
result EB-PCA achieves Bayes-optimal accuracy in spiked models and significantly improves over PCA in simulations and real data.