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48 results for Functional PCA

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.

Regularized variants of Principal Components Analysis, especially Sparse PCA and Functional PCA, are among the most useful tools for the analysis of complex high-dimensional data. Many examples of massive data, have both sparse and functional (smooth) aspects and may benefit from a regularization scheme that can captur…

2013-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method relaxes PCA orthogonality constraints using explained variance of correlated components.

problem Difficulty in using PCA for sparse design due to orthogonality constraints and non-differentiable penalty.
method Introduce expvar(Y) to measure variance explained by correlated components, relax orthogonality constraints.
result Two expvar(Y) definitions suitable for block PCA formulations without orthogonality constraints.

Improves inverse uncertainty quantification for time-dependent data using PCA and deep neural networks.

problem Efficiently quantify model input uncertainties from time-dependent experimental data.
method Functional PCA for dimensionality reduction, deep neural networks for surrogate modeling, Bayesian neural networks for uncertainty estimation.
result The proposed method reduces the computational cost and improves the agreement with experimental data.

The paper studies PCA of probability measures with varying sample sizes and finds optimal convergence rates.

problem PCA of multiple probability measures with varying sample sizes.
method Double asymptotic regime analysis with convergence rates n1/2+mαn^{-1/2} + m^{-α} for empirical covariance and PCA risk.
result Optimal convergence rates for empirical covariance and PCA risk in the dense regime are proven.

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.

PCA-Net combines PCA and neural networks for operator approximation, with new bounds on complexity.

problem Developing approximation theory for PCA-Net architecture.
method Combines PCA and neural networks, derives universal approximation results and lower bounds on complexity.
result PCA-Net can overcome the curse of parametric complexity for specific operators.

Generalizes PCA and ICA for continuous-time signals using neural networks.

problem Low-rank decomposition of continuous-time vector-valued signals.
method Implicit neural network framework to learn numerical approximations of PCA and ICA.
result Unified approach to PCA and ICA in continuous domain, enforcing decorrelation and independence.

Conventional principal component analysis (PCA) finds a principal vector that maximizes the sum of second powers of principal components. We consider a generalized PCA that aims at maximizing the sum of an arbitrary convex function of principal components. We present a gradient ascent algorithm to solve the problem. Fo…

2019-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel PCA method for high-dimensional inverse problems.

problem Optimizing large-scale random fields with gradient information.
method Gradient-Sensitive Principal Component Analysis (Gradient-SPCA) that modifies PCA using objective function gradients.
result Improvements in encoding quality for objective function minimization and field distribution.

KPCA-BO improves BO for high-dimensional optimization problems by learning a non-linear sub-manifold.

problem High-dimensional optimization problems where Gaussian Process regression requires too much data and computation.
method KPCA-BO embeds a non-linear sub-manifold in the search space, learning a GPR model on this sub-manifold.
result KPCA-BO outperforms vanilla BO in convergence speed, especially as dimensionality increases.

Study shows adversarial attacks can fool speech-to-text models, and PCA is ineffective as a defense.

problem Adversarial attacks can mislead speech-to-text neural networks.
method Crafted adversarial waveforms, used PCA for defense, tested under black-box setting.
result PCA is ineffective as a defense mechanism against adversarial attacks in audio domain.

PCA improves detection of phase transitions in muon spectroscopy data from various materials.

problem Subtle changes in asymmetry function indicate phase transitions, but existing methods require material-specific knowledge.
method Applied unsupervised PCA to muon spectroscopy asymmetry data from multiple materials.
result PCA can recover phase transition indicators and improve detection of material-specific variations.

Kernel method is a very powerful tool in machine learning. The trick of kernel has been effectively and extensively applied in many areas of machine learning, such as support vector machine (SVM) and kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA). Kernel trick is to define a kernel function which relies on the inner-…

2011-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the sampling problem for functional PCA (fPCA), where the simplest example is the case of taking time samples of the underlying functional components. More generally, we model the sampling operation as a continuous linear map from H\mathcal{H} to Rm\mathbb{R}^m, where the functional components to lie in so…

2011-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

This paper explains spectral clustering and its equivalence to PCA, breaking it into fully connected and multi-connected cases.

problem Understanding the mathematics behind spectral clustering and its equivalence to PCA.
method Dividing spectral clustering into two categories based on graph connectivity and proving the equivalence to PCA.
result Spectral clustering and PCA are equivalent, with specific proofs for fully connected and multi-connected graphs.

Principal component regression (PCR) is a widely used two-stage procedure: principal component analysis (PCA), followed by regression in which the selected principal components are regarded as new explanatory variables in the model. Note that PCA is based only on the explanatory variables, so the principal components a…

2016-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 KK principal components minimizes the sum of squared errors between the original …

2017-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.