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48 results for Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

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.

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 ↗

Study explores K-means clustering of variables and its relation to PCA.

problem Exploring the relationship between K-means clustering of variables and PCA.
method Apply PCA to original data and K-means to transposed data, quantify variable contributions to principal components.
result Identifies how variable clusters contribute to principal components identified by PCA.

Attention learns PCA on Gaussian data, proving its connection to principal component analysis.

problem Principal component analysis on Gaussian data.
method Analysis of attention mechanisms through PCA, covering finite and infinite prompt regimes.
result Attention aligns with principal eigenvectors of covariance matrices, converging to optimal solutions in the infinite-prompt limit.

Generalized principal component analysis (GLM-PCA) facilitates dimension reduction of non-normally distributed data. We provide a detailed derivation of GLM-PCA with a focus on optimization. We also demonstrate how to incorporate covariates, and suggest post-processing transformations to improve interpretability of lat…

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2014-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for sparse PCA using orthogonal rotations and soft-thresholding.

problem Sparse PCA with a new basis using orthogonal rotations.
method Initialize with leading principal components, apply kimeskk imes k orthogonal rotation, and soft-threshold the rotated components.
result The proposed method is more stable and explains more variance compared to alternatives.

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a mainstay of modern data analysis - a black box that is widely used but (sometimes) poorly understood. The goal of this paper is to dispel the magic behind this black box. This manuscript focuses on building a solid intuition for how and why principal component analysis works. Thi…

2014-04-03abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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.

msPCA solves sparse PCA for multiple components efficiently.

problem Sparse principal component analysis with multiple components.
method Alternating maximization algorithm for sparse loading vectors, with orthogonality or zero correlation constraints.
result Achieves high variance explained with sparse components and controlled feasibility violations.

The paper uses PCA and HMM to forecast stock returns outperforming buy-and-hold.

problem Predicting stock returns accurately.
method Applied PCA to covariance matrix of S&P 500 stocks, used HMM on principal components, and forecasted stock returns.
result The model outperforms buy-and-hold strategy in terms of annualized Sharpe ratio.

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 ↗

We show how to efficiently project a vector onto the top principal components of a matrix, without explicitly computing these components. Specifically, we introduce an iterative algorithm that provably computes the projection using few calls to any black-box routine for ridge regression. By avoiding explicit principal …

2016-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

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 robust PCA estimator combining M-estimators and minimum divergence estimators.

problem Adverse effect of outlying observations in PCA for high-dimensional data.
method Minimum density power divergence estimator combined with a computationally efficient algorithm.
result High breakdown guarantee regardless of data dimension with theoretical support and practical applications.

This study examines whether PCA can effectively identify nitrogen pollution sources in rivers.

problem Identifying pollution sources in rivers for effective environmental management.
method Principal Component Analysis and its modifications, along with Independent Component Analysis and Factor Analysis, are applied to nitrogen pollution source identification.
result PCA and related techniques can be powerful tools for uncovering nitrogen pollution sources in rivers.

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.

We present a technique to perform dimensionality reduction on data that is subject to uncertainty. Our method is a generalization of traditional principal component analysis (PCA) to multivariate probability distributions. In comparison to non-linear methods, linear dimensionality reduction techniques have the advantag…

2019-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Principal component analysis (PCA) is largely adopted for chemical process monitoring and numerous PCA-based systems have been developed to solve various fault detection and diagnosis problems. Since PCA-based methods assume that the monitored process is linear, nonlinear PCA models, such as autoencoder models and kern…

2017-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗