R package psvmSDR simplifies SDR computation for machine learning.
problem Sufficient dimension reduction in machine learning.
method Principal machine (PM) generalized from PSVM.
result Efficient computation of SDR estimators in various scenarios.
The principal support vector machines method (Li et al., 2011) is a powerful tool for sufficient dimension reduction that replaces original predictors with their low-dimensional linear combinations without loss of information. However, the computational burden of the principal support vector machines method constrains …
Study identifies and estimates treatment effect heterogeneity within principal stratification subpopulations.
problem Causal inference with intermediate outcomes and treatment effect heterogeneity.
method Proposes a novel doubly cross-fit doubly robust machine learner to efficiently learn conditional principal causal effects under principal ignorability.
result Demonstrates informative patterns of treatment effect heterogeneity within the always-survivor subpopulation in an acute lung injury trial.
Two new PCA variants improve financial data analysis.
problem Numerical instability and nonstationarity in PCA for finance.
method Iterated and exponentially weighted moving PCA variants using Ogita-Aishima iteration.
result Improved stability and adaptability in financial data analysis.
A new method reduces data movement in neural network training.
problem Large data movement during neural network training.
method Streaming batch principal component analysis for low-rank updates.
result Effective training of convolutional neural networks with low overhead.
New algorithm learns principal subspace from random samples.
problem Learning principal subspace from small random submatrices.
method Stochastic gradient descent algorithm for neural networks.
result Algorithm can handle infinite rows and columns.
We consider the classification problem and focus on nonlinear methods for classification on manifolds. For multivariate datasets lying on an embedded nonlinear Riemannian manifold within the higher-dimensional ambient space, we aim to acquire a classification boundary for the classes with labels, using the intrinsic me…
Kernelized PCovR reveals structure-property relations in chemistry and materials.
problem Understanding structure-property relations in complex systems.
method Kernel Principal Covariates Regression (kernel PCovR) with sparsification.
result Kernelized PCovR effectively reveals and predicts structure-property relations.
We present a novel algorithm (Principal Sensitivity Analysis; PSA) to analyze the knowledge of the classifier obtained from supervised machine learning techniques. In particular, we define principal sensitivity map (PSM) as the direction on the input space to which the trained classifier is most sensitive, and use anal…
Study robust estimation of principal components under adversarial perturbations.
problem Estimating principal components in high-dimensional data under adversarial perturbations.
method Design of a computationally efficient algorithm for recovering the top-r principal subspace.
result The algorithm recovers an estimate of the top-r principal subspace with error depending on the robustness parameter κ.
Study uses machine learning to estimate effective policies in settings with hidden individual actions.
problem Estimating effective policies in settings with hidden individual actions.
method Instrumental Regression and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator.
result Demonstrates how to estimate a good contract in principal-agent problems.
New PCA method for derivatives problems.
problem Reducing dimensionality in derivatives pricing models.
method Supervised Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
result Improved accuracy in machine learning applications.
This paper is a tutorial for eigenvalue and generalized eigenvalue problems. We first introduce eigenvalue problem, eigen-decomposition (spectral decomposition), and generalized eigenvalue problem. Then, we mention the optimization problems which yield to the eigenvalue and generalized eigenvalue problems. We also prov…
Survey of SDR methods for high-dimensional regression and embedding.
problem Reducing dimensionality in high-dimensional data.
method Involves both statistical and machine learning approaches, covering inverse and forward regression methods.
result Supervised Kernel Dimension Reduction is equivalent to supervised PCA.
We propose a fair principal component analysis method that balances reconstruction error and subgroup fairness.
problem Fairness and robustness in principal component analysis for consequential domains.
method Distributionally robust optimization over the Stiefel manifold with a Riemannian subgradient descent.
result The proposed method achieves better performance on real-world datasets compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
Optimal contracts help principals delegate data collection in decentralized ML.
problem Dealing with information asymmetries in decentralized ML.
method Design of optimal and near-optimal contracts addressing uncertainty in model quality and performance.
result Simple linear contracts achieve 1-1/e fraction of optimal utility.
POTD estimates SDR subspace using optimal transport for binary response.
problem Insufficient performance of existing SDR methods for categorical responses.
method Principal optimal transport direction (POTD) using optimal transport coupling.
result POTD exclusively estimates SDR subspace for error-free class labels.
Capacity control, the bias/variance dilemma, and learning unknown functions from data, are all concerned with identifying effective and consistent fits of unknown geometric loci to random data points. A geometric locus is a curve or surface formed by points, all of which possess some uniform property. A geometric locus…
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.
Improves model predictability by mixing forecasts and orthogonalizing models.
problem Redundant models contaminate model space and degrade predictive performance.
method Principal Component Analysis for model orthogonalization in Bayesian forecast mixing.
result Better prediction accuracy and excellent uncertainty quantification.
This paper tackles distributed estimation of the top-L eigenspace in PCA for large data sets.
problem Challenges in estimating the top-L eigenspace in principal component analysis for large data sets.
method Proposes a novel multi-round algorithm using shift-and-invert preconditioning and convex optimization.
result Achieves a fast convergence rate and covers the targeted top-L eigenspace without explicit eigengap assumption.
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…
ML PCA detects phase transitions in muon spectroscopy data.
problem Detecting phase transitions in materials using muon spectroscopy data.
method Unsupervised Machine Learning (PCA) applied to asymmetry functions.
result PCA method effectively detects phase transitions in muon spectroscopy experiments.
NECO detects out-of-distribution data using neural collapse properties.
problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in machine learning models.
method NECO leverages neural collapse geometric properties to identify OOD data.
result NECO achieves state-of-the-art results on OOD detection tasks.
The study predicts Kronecker coefficients using interpretable machine learning models.
problem Predicting Kronecker coefficients of the symmetric group.
method Employed interpretable machine learning models with input features of triples of partitions and b-loadings.
result Achieved an accuracy of approximately 83% and over 99% with transformer-based models.
Machine learning techniques have gained prominence for the analysis of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) data. Here, we present an overview of various unsupervised and supervised machine learning applications to rs-fMRI. We present a methodical taxonomy of machine learning methods in resting…
The paper addresses causal mediation analysis with post-treatment events, proposing robust estimators and efficient methods.
problem Assessing causal mediation in the presence of post-treatment events like noncompliance or clinical events.
method Identifies natural mediation effects for entire populations and principal strata, derives efficient influence functions, and proposes multiply robust estimators.
result Multiply robust estimators are consistent under four types of misspecifications and efficient when all models are correct.
Machine learning is used to approximate density functionals. For the model problem of the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in 1d, mean absolute errors below 1 kcal/mol on test densities similar to the training set are reached with fewer than 100 training densities. A predictor identifies if a test density is …
Tensor completion and robust principal component analysis have been widely used in machine learning while the key problem relies on the minimization of a tensor rank that is very challenging. A common way to tackle this difficulty is to approximate the tensor rank with the ℓ1−norm of singular values based on its …
Is all of machine learning supervised to some degree? The field of machine learning has traditionally been categorized pedagogically into supervised vs unsupervised learning; where supervised learning has typically referred to learning from labeled data, while unsupervised learning has typically referred to learning …
We investigate coresets - succinct, small summaries of large data sets - so that solutions found on the summary are provably competitive with solution found on the full data set. We provide an overview over the state-of-the-art in coreset construction for machine learning. In Section 2, we present both the intuition be…
We employ unsupervised machine learning techniques to learn latent parameters which best describe states of the two-dimensional Ising model and the three-dimensional XY model. These methods range from principal component analysis to artificial neural network based variational autoencoders. The states are sampled using …
The paper uses news headlines to predict stock prices using embeddings.
problem Predicting stock prices using news headlines.
method Using OpenAI-based text embedding models and PCA to create vector encodings of news headlines, then training machine learning models on financial data.
result Headline data embeddings improve stock price prediction by at least 40%.
Interpretability has become an important issue in the machine learning field, along with the success of layered neural networks in various practical tasks. Since a trained layered neural network consists of a complex nonlinear relationship between large number of parameters, we failed to understand how they could achie…
A hybrid approach detects financial market regime switches using PCA and k-means.
problem Detecting regime switches in financial markets for trend forecasting.
method Dimensionality reduction with PCA and clustering with k-means.
result Trading strategies based on detected regimes show improved performance.
Study shows resampling can drastically alter PCA results.
problem Stability and sensitivity of PCA under data resampling.
method Analyzed resampling sensitivity of high-dimensional PCA.
result PCA's principal components become asymptotically orthogonal when resampling is significant.
Develops an ℓ_p theory for PCA and spectral clustering.
problem Lack of precise characterizations of PCA scores for low-dimensional embedding.
method An ℓ_p perturbation theory for PCA in Hilbert spaces, analyzing eigenvectors and Gram matrix.
result Optimal recovery results for Gaussian mixture and stochastic block models.
Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate statistical tool used to visualize and interpret data dependencies by finding maximally correlated embeddings of pairs of random variables. CA has found applications in fields ranging from epidemiology to social sciences; however, current methods do not scale to large, hig…
Proposes VEESA pipeline for interpreting ML models with functional data.
problem Interpreting ML models with functional data inputs for high-consequence applications.
method VEESA pipeline using efPCA and PFI.
result Provides explanation of model's use of functional data variability for prediction.
This paper proposes a brain-inspired approach to quantum machine learning with the goal of circumventing many of the complications of other approaches. The fact that quantum processes are unitary presents both opportunities and challenges. A principal opportunity is that a large number of computations can be carried ou…
A new method clusters rows of a matrix of point processes.
problem Challenges in analyzing structured point process data.
method Mixture model of multi-level marked point processes, combined with ES algorithm and FPCA.
result An efficient method for clustering rows of a matrix of point processes.
This paper solves tensor robust principal component analysis via scaled gradient descent.
problem Extracting useful information from tensor data robust to corruptions and ill-conditioning.
method Directly recovers low-rank tensor factors via scaled gradient descent with adaptive thresholding.
result The proposed algorithm converges linearly to the true low-rank tensor at a constant rate independent of the condition number.
Unified method learns latent spaces from labeled data.
problem Identifying low-dimensional latent structures in high-dimensional data.
method Nonlinear multiple-response regression within an index model context.
result Unified method offers better interpretability and reduced computational complexity.
Kernel ridge regression is used to approximate the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in a one-dimensional box as a functional of their density. The properties of different kernels and methods of cross-validation are explored, and highly accurate energies are achieved. Accurate {\em constrained optimal densitie…
Synthetic experiments are crucial for assessing causal machine learning methods.
problem Current empirical evaluations of causal machine learning methods are insufficient and unreliable.
method Propose principles for conducting rigorous empirical analyses with synthetic data.
result Rigorous synthetic experiments are essential for building trust in causal machine learning methods.
Survey of embedding methods for high-dimensional and network data.
problem Embedding high-dimensional and nonlinear data structures in a lower-dimensional space.
method Survey of various embedding methods including principal curves, multidimensional scaling, graph-based methods, and topological embeddings.
result Discussion of the pros and cons of algorithmic machine learning and statistical modeling approaches.
Most of machine learning approaches have stemmed from the application of minimizing the mean squared distance principle, based on the computationally efficient quadratic optimization methods. However, when faced with high-dimensional and noisy data, the quadratic error functionals demonstrated many weaknesses including…
Machine learning improves financial stress testing in Indian markets.
problem Conventional stress testing limitations in Indian financial markets.
method Dimensionality reduction, latent factor modeling, Variational Autoencoders, Monte Carlo simulation.
result Improved flexibility, robustness, and realism in financial stress testing.