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48 results for Robust Principal Component Analysis

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.

Robust PCA methods are typically batch algorithms which requires loading all observations into memory before processing. This makes them inefficient to process big data. In this paper, we develop an efficient online robust principal component methods, namely online moving window robust principal component analysis (OMW…

2017-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) can recover low-rank matrices when they are corrupted by sparse noises. In practice, many matrices are, however, of high-rank and hence cannot be recovered by RPCA. We propose a novel method called robust kernel principal component analysis (RKPCA) to decompose a partially cor…

2018-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

IRCUR accelerates RPCA by using CUR decomposition for efficient low rank estimation.

problem Dimension reduction in robust principal component analysis.
method IRCUR employs CUR decomposition to update the low rank component efficiently.
result IRCUR achieves significant computational efficiency compared to existing algorithms.

Paper proposes a new method for exact recovery in robust tensor principal component analysis.

problem Exact recovery of low-rank and sparse components in tensors.
method Proposes a new method based on tensor-tensor product and t-SVD to solve a convex optimization problem.
result Exact recovery achieved in a deterministic fashion without randomness assumptions.

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.

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 ↗

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.

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.

Sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) has emerged as a powerful technique for modern data analysis, providing improved interpretation of low-rank structures by identifying localized spatial structures in the data and disambiguating between distinct time scales. We demonstrate a robust and scalable SPCA algorithm b…

2018-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves PCA robustness using Wasserstein distances.

problem Uncertainty in probability distribution affects PCA robustness.
method Distributionally robust optimization with Wasserstein distances.
result Explicit reformulation leads to efficient smoothing algorithm.

Advances robust principal component analysis with transformed ℓ1 regularization.

problem Recovering low-rank structures from noisy, partially observed data corrupted by sparse outliers.
method Proposes transformed ℓ1 (TL1) regularization to improve approximations of rank and ℓ0 functional.
result Achieves higher accuracy in estimating low-rank and sparse components compared to classical convex models, especially under non-uniform sampling schemes.

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.

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 eextRPCAe^{ ext{RPCA}}.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in steel sheet defect detection and crime activity monitoring.

We consider streaming principal component analysis when the stochastic data-generating model is subject to perturbations. While existing models assume a fixed covariance, we adopt a robust perspective where the covariance matrix belongs to a temporal uncertainty set. Under this setting, we provide fundamental limits on…

2019-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

RieCUR improves Robust PCA by combining Riemannian optimization and CUR decompositions.

problem Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to recover low-rank and sparse matrices from their sum.
method Riemannian CUR (RieCUR) algorithm that combines Riemannian optimization and robust CUR decompositions.
result RieCUR achieves state-of-the-art performance in Robust PCA with improved robustness to outliers and comparable computational complexity.

This paper extends robust principal component analysis (RPCA) to nonlinear manifolds. Suppose that the observed data matrix is the sum of a sparse component and a component drawn from some low dimensional manifold. Is it possible to separate them by using similar ideas as RPCA? Is there any benefit in treating the mani…

2019-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditional load analysis is facing challenges with the new electricity usage patterns due to demand response as well as increasing deployment of distributed generations, including photovoltaics (PV), electric vehicles (EV), and energy storage systems (ESS). At the transmission system, despite of irregular load behavio…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

SP-SPCA improves sparse PCA by adaptively adjusting variable penalties, enhancing interpretability and stability.

problem Poor interpretability and variable redundancy in PCA for high-dimensional data.
method Introduces a single equilibrium parameter to adaptively adjust variable penalties in the L2 regularization framework.
result Consistently outperforms standard sparse PCA methods in identifying sparse loading patterns and preserving cumulative variance.

We revisit the problem of robust principal component analysis with features acting as prior side information. To this aim, a novel, elegant, non-convex optimization approach is proposed to decompose a given observation matrix into a low-rank core and the corresponding sparse residual. Rigorous theoretical analysis of t…

2017-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

New algorithms improve RPCA for large matrices with upper rank bounds.

problem Efficiently decompose large matrices into low-rank and sparse parts.
method Combine regularization and matrix multiplication approaches with upper rank bounds.
result Proposed algorithms are faster and more robust than existing methods.

Dictionary learning and component analysis models are fundamental for learning compact representations that are relevant to a given task (feature extraction, dimensionality reduction, denoising, etc.). The model complexity is encoded by means of specific structure, such as sparsity, low-rankness, or nonnegativity. Unfo…

2018-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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.