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48 results for Supervised Principal Component Analysis

Explains various PCA and SPCA methods with theory and applications.

problem No specific problem stated; focuses on explaining methods.
method Explains PCA, SPCA, kernel PCA, and kernel SPCA methods with theory and applications.
result Comprehensive coverage of PCA and SPCA methods with theory and applications.

New supervised and unsupervised NFLTs for elliptical distributions.

problem Understanding unsupervised No Free Lunch Theorems for elliptical distributions.
method Proved two equally optimal strategies for elliptical distributions, inspired PRIM-based bump-hunting algorithms.
result Optimal strategies for selecting principal components based on variance or volume.

Study on reducing dimensionality in high-dimensional regression with kernel methods and stability analysis.

problem Analyzing errors in high-dimensional regression with dimensionality reduction and kernel regression.
method Derive a stability result for kernel regression with Wasserstein distance and apply it to PCA to deduce convergence rates.
result Two-step procedure yields useful convergence rates in semi-supervised settings.

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…

2019-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes SDDP for improving time series forecasting with high-dimensional predictors.

problem Improving time series forecasting with high-dimensional predictors.
method SDDP framework that incorporates target variable and lagged observations into factor extraction process.
result SDDP improves predictive accuracy in time series forecasting.

A simple self-supervised model for tensor RPCA using deep unfolding.

problem Tensor robust principal component analysis (RPCA) challenges in practical applications.
method Deep unfolding with only four hyperparameters.
result Competitive or superior performance compared to supervised methods, even in data-starved scenarios.

Spofe bridges statistical rigor and interpretability in feature extraction from tabular data.

problem Ensuring statistical rigor and interpretability in feature extraction from complex tabular data.
method Spofe combines kernel principal components and sparse polynomial functions with a multi-objective knockoff selection procedure.
result Spofe consistently outperforms other methods in feature selection for regression and classification tasks.

Is all of machine learning supervised to some degree? The field of machine learning has traditionally been categorized pedagogically into supervised vs unsupervised learningsupervised~vs~unsupervised~learning; where supervised learning has typically referred to learning from labeled data, while unsupervised learning has typically referred to learning …

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances functional classifier performance with new tree-based methods and unbiased feature importance assessment.

problem Challenges of high-dimensional functional data and biased feature importance assessment.
method Augmented functional classification trees and random forests with ad-hoc conditional permutations for unbiased feature importance.
result Significant enhancement in predictive power of functional classifiers through new feature importance assessment.

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.

Generalizes PCA to maximize any convex function of components.

problem Finding a principal vector that maximizes a convex function of components.
method Gradient ascent algorithm for solving the generalized PCA problem; fixed points of neural networks for kernel version.
result Solutions can be obtained as fixed points of simple neural networks.

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.

Study optimal spectral estimator for semi-supervised node classification.

problem Semi-supervised node classification on CSBM with limited labels.
method Spectral estimator inspired by PCA, graph ridge regression, GCN.
result Achieves information-theoretical threshold for exact recovery.

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.

Paper uses PCA to analyze Chinese sovereign bonds and discusses bond immunization.

problem Analyzing factors affecting Chinese sovereign bond yield changes.
method Applied Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on bond yield data.
result Identified principal factors influencing Chinese sovereign bond yield changes.

Looped transformers with LN converge to power method for principal component prediction.

problem Understanding how transformers learn algorithmic procedures.
method Study of principal component prediction with looped linear transformers and layer normalization.
result Gradient descent trains looped transformers with LN to implement the power method for principal component prediction.

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 …

2015-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a new method for supervised learning, especially suited to wide data where the number of features is much greater than the number of observations. The method combines the lasso (1\ell_1) sparsity penalty with a quadratic penalty that shrinks the coefficient vector toward the leading principal components of …

2018-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for scale-invariant representation learning using MAPCA.

problem Learning invariant representations in data.
method Metric-Aware Principal Component Analysis (MAPCA) based on generalized eigenproblem.
result MAPCA provides a unified geometric language for various self-supervised learning objectives.

Though there is a growing body of literature on fairness for supervised learning, the problem of incorporating fairness into unsupervised learning has been less well-studied. This paper studies fairness in the context of principal component analysis (PCA). We first present a definition of fairness for dimensionality re…

2018-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Direct contextual policy search methods learn to improve policy parameters and simultaneously generalize these parameters to different context or task variables. However, learning from high-dimensional context variables, such as camera images, is still a prominent problem in many real-world tasks. A naive application o…

2016-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

Proposes an online method for high-dimensional streaming data.

problem Increasing variable dimensions with sample size in online kernel sliced inverse regression.
method Introduces approximate linear dependence condition and dictionary variable sets to address the problem. Transforms into online generalized eigen-decomposition problem and uses stochastic optimization for updates.
result Achieves close performance to batch processing kernel sliced inverse regression.

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 ↗

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.

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.

RandNet learns from compressed image data, improving efficiency and accuracy.

problem Efficiency and accuracy in training neural networks with large datasets.
method RandNet uses compressed random measurements of images to train neural networks efficiently.
result RandNet achieves comparable accuracy to full data training with minimal loss.

In this work we propose a method for reducing the dimensionality of tensor objects in a binary classification framework. The proposed Common Mode Patterns method takes into consideration the labels' information, and ensures that tensor objects that belong to different classes do not share common features after the redu…

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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.