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18 results for PPCA

New approach resolves ambiguity in PPCA model's maximum likelihood estimation.

problem Ambiguity in maximum likelihood estimation of PPCA model due to rotational symmetry.
method Using quotient topological spaces, the approach resolves ambiguity and shows consistency of the maximum likelihood solution.
result Maximum likelihood solution is consistent in an appropriate quotient Euclidean space.

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.

Posterior collapse in Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) arises when the variational posterior distribution closely matches the prior for a subset of latent variables. This paper presents a simple and intuitive explanation for posterior collapse through the analysis of linear VAEs and their direct correspondence with Prob…

2019-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

In this document we are going to derive the equations needed to implement a Variational Bayes estimation of the parameters of the simplified probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (SPLDA) model. This can be used to adapt SPLDA from one database to another with few development data or to implement the fully Bayesian…

2015-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

HPPCA improves imputation of longitudinal data with missing values.

problem Handling incomplete, high-dimensional longitudinal data with nested sources of variation and temporal dependency.
method Hierarchical probabilistic principal component analysis (HPPCA) with a two-level latent factor model and Gaussian process.
result HPPCA outperforms standard PPCA and multivariate functional PCA in imputation accuracy, even under heavy missingness and model misspecification.

A new method improves target selection for manipulating complex systems like the brain.

problem Improper incorporation of low-variance outcomes into latent space of predictive models.
method Developed a novel objective based on supervised variational autoencoders (SVAEs) for PPCA (Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis).
result gPCR (Generative Principal Component Regression) dramatically improves target selection in manipulation compared to standard PCR and SVAEs.

Using the linear Gaussian latent variable model as a starting point we relax some of the constraints it imposes by deriving a nonparametric latent feature Gaussian variable model. This model introduces additional discrete latent variables to the original structure. The Bayesian nonparametric nature of this new model al…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) seeks a low dimensional representation of a data set in the presence of independent spherical Gaussian noise, Sigma = (sigma^2)*I. The maximum likelihood solution for the model is an eigenvalue problem on the sample covariance matrix. In this paper we consider the situa…

2011-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Given data over variables (X1,...,Xm,Y)(X_1,...,X_m, Y) we consider the problem of finding out whether XX jointly causes YY or whether they are all confounded by an unobserved latent variable ZZ. To do so, we take an information-theoretic approach based on Kolmogorov complexity. In a nutshell, we follow the postulate that firs…

2019-01-21abs ↗pdf ↗