Paper develops a dual formulation for PCA in Hilbert spaces.
problem Characterizing probabilistic PCA in Hilbert spaces.
method Dual formulation for probabilistic PCA in Hilbert spaces.
result Generative framework for kernel methods developed.
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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…
HeMPPCAT improves PCA for data with varying noise.
problem PCA's suboptimal performance on data with heterogeneous noise.
method HeMPPCAT uses a GEM algorithm to estimate factors, means, and noise variances.
result Improved factor estimates and clustering accuracy compared to MPPCA.
Dimensionality reduction on Riemannian manifolds is challenging due to the complex nonlinear data structures. While probabilistic principal geodesic analysis~(PPGA) has been proposed to generalize conventional principal component analysis (PCA) onto manifolds, its effectiveness is limited to data with a single modality…
This paper improves PPCA robustness using -distributions.
problem Improving robustness of probabilistic PCA.
method Using multivariate -distributions and a hierarchical model.
result Clarified the correct correspondence between the multivariate -PPCA framework and the hierarchical model.
Proposes MPCA for robust PCA using mode estimation.
problem Outliers sensitivity in PCA.
method Modal Principal Component Analysis (MPCA) based on mode estimation.
result MPCA shows advantages over conventional methods.
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.
We present a unifying framework which reduces the construction of probabilistic component analysis techniques to a mere selection of the latent neighbourhood, thus providing an elegant and principled framework for creating novel component analysis models as well as constructing probabilistic equivalents of deterministi…
On the Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Probabilistic Principal Component Analysisstat.ML
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.
PGPCA improves PCA for nonlinear data in neuroscience.
problem Nonlinear data distribution in neuroscience.
method Developed PGPCA for nonlinear manifolds, incorporating EM algorithm.
result PGPCA outperforms PPCA in modeling data around nonlinear manifolds.
Survey of factor analysis, PCA, variational inference, and VAE.
problem Dimensionality reduction and generative modeling of data.
method Variational inference, factor analysis, probabilistic PCA, and VAE.
result Derivation and explanation of ELBO, EM, and closed-form solutions.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is very popular to perform dimension reduction. The selection of the number of significant components is essential but often based on some practical heuristics depending on the application. Only few works have proposed a probabilistic approach able to infer the number of significant c…
New method models asymmetric data with improved tail dependence.
problem Asymmetric data and tail dependence modeling.
method Generalized Skew-t Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis.
result Improved modeling of asymmetric data with tail effects.
Efficient private matrix analysis algorithms for recent variants.
problem Private analysis of recent matrix updates.
method Identifying sufficient conditions on positive semidefinite matrices.
result First efficient differentially private algorithms for various matrix analysis tasks.
Localized Sparse Principal Component Analysis of Multivariate Time Series in Frequency Domainstat.ME
The paper introduces a method for interpretable principal component analysis of high-dimensional time series.
problem Inconsistent and difficult-to-interpret principal component estimates in high-dimensional regimes.
method Localized sparse principal component analysis of spectral density matrices in frequency domain.
result Efficient algorithm for sparse-localized estimates of principal subspaces.
Novel F2NARX model improves surrogate modeling for stochastic dynamical systems.
problem Challenges in constructing accurate and efficient surrogate models for stochastic dynamical systems.
method Function-on-Function Nonlinear AutoRegressive model with eXogenous inputs (F2NARX) combining PCA and Gaussian process regression.
result F2NARX outperforms state-of-the-art NARX models in efficiency and accuracy.
Theoretical Connection between Locally Linear Embedding, Factor Analysis, and Probabilistic PCAstat.ML
This work connects LLE, factor analysis, and probabilistic PCA through a stochastic perspective.
problem Exploring the theoretical connection between LLE, factor analysis, and probabilistic PCA.
method Solving the stochastic linear reconstruction of LLE using expectation maximization.
result LLE, factor analysis, and probabilistic PCA are shown to be connected through a stochastic perspective.
Sparse versions of principal component analysis (PCA) have imposed themselves as simple, yet powerful ways of selecting relevant features of high-dimensional data in an unsupervised manner. However, when several sparse principal components are computed, the interpretation of the selected variables is difficult since ea…
How does missing data affect our ability to learn signal structures? It has been shown that learning signal structure in terms of principal components is dependent on the ratio of sample size and dimensionality and that a critical number of observations is needed before learning starts (Biehl and Mietzner, 1993). Here …
Residual Component Analysisstat.ML
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…
New method for robust PCA with exponential family distributions.
problem Recovering low-rank structure from data matrices with outliers.
method Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for .
result Demonstrated effectiveness in steel sheet defect detection and crime activity monitoring.
Methods for analysis of principal components in discrete data have existed for some time under various names such as grade of membership modelling, probabilistic latent semantic analysis, and genotype inference with admixture. In this paper we explore a number of extensions to the common theory, and present some applic…
Develops statistical framework for analyzing functional data extremes.
problem Analyzing extremes of functional data in Hilbert spaces.
method Regular variation in Hilbert spaces, Peaks-Over-Threshold framework, functional PCA.
result Proposes a dimension reduction method for functional extreme observations.
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.
This work is concerned with the non-negative rank-1 robust principal component analysis (RPCA), where the goal is to recover the dominant non-negative principal components of a data matrix precisely, where a number of measurements could be grossly corrupted with sparse and arbitrary large noise. Most of the known techn…
New simulations advise caution in choosing principal components for multivariate functional data.
problem Inaccurate selection of principal components in multivariate functional data.
method Extensive simulations investigating the reliability of percentage of variance explained thresholds.
result Conventional threshold methods may fail to accurately explain overall variance in multivariate functional data.
Essential principal components simplify spectral analysis with minimal training data.
problem Accurate spectral quantification from complex mixtures.
method Identifying essential principal components and using molar extinction coefficients.
result Near one-to-one projection from principal components to mixture constituents.
In this dissertation, the main goal is visualisation of financial time series. We expect that visualisation of financial time series will be a useful auxiliary for technical analysis. Firstly, we review the technical analysis methods and test our trading rules, which are built by the essential concepts of technical ana…
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…
QAPCA uses quantum annealing for robust PCA.
problem Outliers in data skew L2-norm principal components.
method Quantum annealing for L1-norm optimization.
result QAPCA's reconstruction error is comparable to L1-BF.
We study sparse principal component analysis for high dimensional vector autoregressive time series under a doubly asymptotic framework, which allows the dimension to scale with the series length . We treat the transition matrix of time series as a nuisance parameter and directly apply sparse principal component…
In this paper the exact linear relation between the leading eigenvectors of the modularity matrix and the singular vectors of an uncentered data matrix is developed. Based on this analysis the concept of a modularity component is defined, and its properties are developed. It is shown that modularity component analysis …
Bitcoin's Crypto Flow Networkq-fin.GN
Study reveals structure of Bitcoin's crypto flow network.
problem Understanding crypto flows among Bitcoin users.
method Blockchain data, user identification, network construction, bow-tie structure, Hodge decomposition, non-negative matrix factorization.
result Users are located in upstream, downstream, and core of the crypto flow network.
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.
Probabilistic Autoencoder learns latent space weights' distribution.
problem Nonlinear model reconstruction error and sample quality.
method Normalizing flow for latent space weights' probability distribution.
result PAE achieves small reconstruction errors, high sample quality, and good performance.
Residual Component Analysis: Generalising PCA for more flexible inference in linear-Gaussian modelscs.LG
Probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) seeks a low dimensional representation of a data set in the presence of independent spherical Gaussian noise. The maximum likelihood solution for the model is an eigenvalue problem on the sample covariance matrix. In this paper we consider the situation where the data v…
This paper analyses the Chinese Sovereign bond yield to find out the principal factors affecting the term structure of interest rate changes. We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on our data consisting of the Chinese Sovereign bond from January 2002 till May 2018 with the different yield to maturity. Then we wil…
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.
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.
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 …
A new method uses Gram matrix for efficient multivariate functional principal components.
problem Efficiently estimating eigencomponents of multidimensional functional datasets.
method Proposes using inner-product matrix to estimate eigenelements of multivariate and multidimensional functional datasets.
result Established relationship between eigenelements of covariance operator and inner-product matrix.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is recognised as a quintessential data analysis technique when it comes to describing linear relationships between the features of a dataset. However, the well-known sensitivity of PCA to non-Gaussian samples and/or outliers often makes it unreliable in practice. To this end, a robust…
This tutorial explains Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) as two fundamental classification methods in statistical and probabilistic learning. We start with the optimization of decision boundary on which the posteriors are equal. Then, LDA and QDA are derived for binary and mul…
Two derivations of PCA for distributional data.
problem PCA for datasets of distributions.
method Two derivations: variance maximization and reconstruction error minimization.
result Closed-form solution for distributional PCA.
Improved Convergence Speed of Fully Symmetric Learning Rules for Principal Component Analysisstat.ML
Improved convergence speed of principal component analysis through modified learning rules.
problem Slow convergence for covariance matrices with close eigenvalues.
method Introduced an additional term to the objective function to mitigate convergence issues.
result Significantly improved convergence speed confirmed through simulations.
Principal component analysis (PCA) has been a prominent tool for high-dimensional data analysis. Online algorithms that estimate the principal component by processing streaming data are of tremendous practical and theoretical interests. Despite its rich applications, theoretical convergence analysis remains largely ope…
LLMs learn probability density functions in-context, showing distinct learning trajectories.
problem Density estimation of time series data in LLMs.
method Intensive Principal Component Analysis (InPCA) to visualize and analyze LLMs' learning dynamics.
result LLMs follow similar learning trajectories in a low-dimensional InPCA space, distinct from traditional methods.
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.