Efficient CF approach using fast adaptive PCA for recommender systems.
problem Matrix completion problem in recommender systems.
method Fast adaptive randomized singular value decomposition (SVD) and termination mechanism for latent factors.
result The approach achieves near optimal prediction accuracy with high runtime efficiency.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a popular tool for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction in data analysis. There is a probabilistic version of PCA, known as Probabilistic PCA (PPCA). However, standard PCA and PPCA are not robust, as they are sensitive to outliers. To alleviate this problem, this paper i…
A new low-dimensional parameterization based on principal component analysis (PCA) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) is developed to represent complex geological models. The CNN-PCA method is inspired by recent developments in computer vision using deep learning. CNN-PCA can be viewed as a generalization of an ex…
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a very successful dimensionality reduction technique, widely used in predictive modeling. A key factor in its widespread use in this domain is the fact that the projection of a dataset onto its first K principal components minimizes the sum of squared errors between the original …
SPCA improves PCA by learning from simple to complex samples.
problem Noise and outliers in complex data.
method Self-paced Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) that integrates samples from simple to more complex.
result SPCA improves state-of-the-art results on popular datasets.
A new GNN architecture called coVariance neural network (VNN) improves stability and transferability of covariance matrix analysis.
problem Stability and transferability issues in covariance matrix analysis.
method Developed coVariance neural network (VNN) that operates on sample covariance matrices.
result VNN is more stable and transferable than PCA-based approaches.
The problem of estimating the kernel mean in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) is central to kernel methods in that it is used by classical approaches (e.g., when centering a kernel PCA matrix), and it also forms the core inference step of modern kernel methods (e.g., kernel-based non-parametric tests) that rel…
STVNN models spatiotemporal data using covariance matrices.
problem Challenges in modeling spatiotemporal interactions in multivariate time series.
method Introduces SpatioTemporal coVariance Neural Network (STVNN) that operates on sample covariance matrix and uses joint spatiotemporal convolutions.
result STVNN is stable to online estimation uncertainties and outperforms temporal PCA.
The paper optimizes portfolios by selecting financial ratios via PCA for better value investment.
problem Embedding value investment in portfolio optimization models.
method Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to filter out dominant financial ratios, then applying portfolio optimization model with second-order stochastic dominance criteria.
result PCA-SPO(B) strategy outperforms other models in terms of downside deviation, CVaR, VaR, Sortino, Rachev, and STARR ratios.
Two new algorithms improve robust PCA and Schatten packing.
problem Robustly estimating the top eigenvector of corrupted sub-Gaussian data.
method Two iterative filtering and nearly-linear time algorithms.
result First polynomial-time algorithms for non-trivial covariance estimation.
CSTs improve stability in covariance spectrum analysis without training.
problem Stability and expressiveness in covariance spectrum analysis.
method Sequential application of covariance wavelet filters to input data.
result Stable and expressive hierarchical representations in low-data settings.
Robust estimators for Gaussian sparse tasks with optimal error under contamination.
problem Robust mean estimation, PCA, and linear regression in the presence of Huber contamination.
method Novel multidimensional filtering method for sparse regime.
result Optimal error guarantees within constant factors for Gaussian robust k-sparse mean estimation. FSPA bypasses eigenvalue estimation for quantum PCA, achieving optimal complexity and robustness.
problem Quantum PCA eigenvalue estimation is computationally expensive and prone to errors.
method Filtered Spectral Projection Algorithm (FSPA) that projects onto the dominant spectral subspace directly.
result FSPA achieves optimal complexity and robustness, outperforming classical methods.
Reeb spaces, as well as their discretized versions called Mappers, are common descriptors used in Topological Data Analysis, with plenty of applications in various fields of science, such as computational biology and data visualization, among others. The stability and quantification of the rate of convergence of the Ma…
Contrast enhanced ultrasound is a radiation-free imaging modality which uses encapsulated gas microbubbles for improved visualization of the vascular bed deep within the tissue. It has recently been used to enable imaging with unprecedented subwavelength spatial resolution by relying on super-resolution techniques. A t…
Algorithm efficiently learns deep ReLU networks with polynomial runtime in depth and parameters.
problem Learning deep ReLU networks with polynomial runtime.
method Algorithm using filtered PCA and lattice polynomial analysis.
result First nontrivial results for networks of depth more than two with polynomial runtime.
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 …
Algorithm learns polynomials in Gaussian inputs with reduced sample complexity.
problem Learning polynomials of few relevant dimensions in high-dimensional data.
method Filtered PCA for warm start, geodesic SGD for accuracy.
result Sample complexity roughly N=Or,d(nlog2(1/ε)(logn)d), runtime Or,d(Nn2). Model predicts epileptic seizures by detecting preictal state using wavelet transform and PCA.
problem Predicting epileptic seizures before onset.
method Common spatial pattern filtering, wavelet transform for preprocessing, PCA for feature extraction, SVM for classification.
result Average sensitivity of 93.1% for 84 seizures in 23 subjects.
Simplifies fair PCA with fast, efficient solution.
problem Learning fair low-rank approximations of data.
method Conceptually simple approach with analytic solution.
result Faster and similar results to existing fair PCA methods.
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.
Unified framework improves PCA for outliers and distributed data.
problem Outliers and limitations in PCA for large-scale applications.
method φ-PCA framework that retains PCA efficiency and adds robustness.
result HM-PCA achieves optimal robustness and efficiency.
TL-PCA uses transfer learning to improve PCA performance with limited target data.
problem PCA performance is limited with scarce target data.
method Transfer learning approach to PCA (TL-PCA) that combines source task knowledge with target task data.
result Improved PCA representation for dimensionality reduction with limited target data.
Bucketed PCA-NN outperforms DNNs by 96% on MNIST.
problem Benchmarking deep neural networks for supervised classification.
method Applies PCA to individual buckets constructed in two phases, retains neural network architecture, and uses neurons that mirror input signals.
result Bucketed PCA-NN achieves 96% accuracy on MNIST, similar to DNNs.
We study high-dimensional sparse estimation tasks in a robust setting where a constant fraction of the dataset is adversarially corrupted. Specifically, we focus on the fundamental problems of robust sparse mean estimation and robust sparse PCA. We give the first practically viable robust estimators for these problems.…
Anchor PCA improves robustness in multi-domain PCA.
problem PCA on pooled data can focus on spurious directions.
method Anchor PCA focuses on shared directions of variation.
result Anchor PCA outperforms pooling and worst-case alternatives.
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…
Revisits PCA with new formulations and insights.
problem Improving PCA formulations and understanding.
method Difference-of-convex (DC) framework, kernelizability, out-of-sample applicability, simultaneous iteration, DCA perspective.
result PCA-like problems are kernelizable and have new optimization perspectives.
Proposes σ-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.
Solution to sparse PCA tuning problem using Empirical Bayes.
problem Sparse PCA multiple tuning problem (MTP).
method Empirical Bayes covariance decomposition for penalized PCA.
result Empirical Bayes approach efficiently solves MTP in sparse PCA.
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.
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.
Mixtures of Gaussians, factor analyzers (probabilistic PCA) and hidden Markov models are staples of static and dynamic data modeling and image and video modeling in particular. We show how topographic transformations in the input, such as translation and shearing in images, can be accounted for in these models by inclu…
New analysis improves black-box k-PCA algorithms, reducing parameter loss.
problem Designing efficient k-PCA algorithms with black-box access to a 1-PCA oracle. method Black-box deflation methods, analyzing ePCA and cPCA approximations.
result Deflation methods suffer no asymptotic parameter loss for k-cPCA in feasible regimes. Derives kernel PCA with Nyström method for scalability.
problem Scalability of kernel PCA.
method Nyström method for kernel PCA.
result Provides scalable alternative to full kernel PCA.
We develop efficient algorithms for robust PCA that handle outliers.
problem Finding principal components in datasets with outliers.
method Nearly-linear time and streaming algorithms for robust PCA.
result Near-optimal error guarantees for robust PCA with nearly-linear time and memory usage.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has wide applications in machine learning, text mining and computer vision. Classical PCA based on a Gaussian noise model is fragile to noise of large magnitude. Laplace noise assumption based PCA methods cannot deal with dense noise effectively. In this paper, we propose Cauchy Princ…
A new PCA method using Tℓ1-norm outperforms existing methods.
problem Outliers and noise sensitivity in classical PCA.
method PCA based on Tℓ1-norm maximization. result The method outperforms PCA-ℓp, ℓpSPCA, and PCA in numerical experiments. SP-SPCA improves sparse PCA by adaptively adjusting variable penalties, enhancing interpretability and stability.
problem Poor interpretability and variable redundancy in PCA for high-dimensional data.
method Introduces a single equilibrium parameter to adaptively adjust variable penalties in the L2 regularization framework.
result Consistently outperforms standard sparse PCA methods in identifying sparse loading patterns and preserving cumulative variance.
New fair PCA method using streaming algorithms with statistical guarantees.
problem Perform PCA while ensuring fair projected distributions.
method Formulated new notion PAFO learnability, proposed fair noisy power method (FNPM) for memory efficiency.
result First statistical guarantee for fair PCA in streaming setting.
PCA-Guided Quantile Sampling preserves data structure in large datasets.
problem Preserving data structure in large-scale subsampling.
method PCA QS uses leading principal components to guide stratified sampling.
result PCA QS maintains statistical and geometric structure without distorting semantics.
A method to remove mean-shift noise from PCA using knockoffs.
problem High sensitivity of PCA to mean-shift contamination in high-dimensional data.
method Introducing knockoff mean-shift perturbation to separate and remove mean-shift components from PCA.
result The mean-shift spikes are spectrally separable from stable eigenvalues, allowing for robust PCA.
AgFlow speeds up model selection in penalized PCA.
problem Efficient model selection in penalized PCA for HDLSS settings.
method Implicit regularization effect of gradient flow to reduce computation complexity.
result AgFlow achieves the complete solution path of L2-penalized PCA.
One technique to visualize the training of neural networks is to perform PCA on the parameters over the course of training and to project to the subspace spanned by the first few PCA components. In this paper we compare this technique to the PCA of a high dimensional random walk. We compute the eigenvalues and eigenvec…
GT-PCA improves PCA for image and time series data.
problem Lack of robustness to transformations in PCA.
method GT-PCA is a neural network that estimates components invariant to specific transformations.
result GT-PCA outperforms alternative methods in synthetic and real data experiments.
Modified PCA algorithm with continual learning preserves features of previous modes for multimode process monitoring.
problem Catastrophic forgetting of previous modes in monitoring models for successive modes.
method Modified PCA algorithm with elastic weight consolidation (EWC) to preserve features of previous modes.
result PCA-EWC algorithm effectively monitors multimode processes without performance decrease.