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48 results for contrastive PCA

PCA++ improves robustness to background noise in contrastive learning.

problem Recovering shared signal subspaces from positive pairs in high-dimensional data with structured background noise.
method PCA++ uses hard uniformity-constrained contrastive learning to enforce identity covariance on projected features.
result PCA++ outperforms standard PCA and alignment-only PCA+ in simulations and real-world datasets.

This work analyzes when contrastive models are close to PCA or kernel methods.

problem Understanding when contrastive models are equivalent to kernel methods or PCA.
method Analyzing the training dynamics of two-layer contrastive models with non-linear activation.
result Wide contrastive models with cosine similarity based losses are close to PCA.

Generalizes PCA and ICA for continuous-time signals using neural networks.

problem Low-rank decomposition of continuous-time vector-valued signals.
method Implicit neural network framework to learn numerical approximations of PCA and ICA.
result Unified approach to PCA and ICA in continuous domain, enforcing decorrelation and independence.

Sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA) aims at finding a sparse basis to improve the interpretability over the dense basis of PCA, meanwhile the sparse basis should cover the data subspace as much as possible. In contrast to most of existing work which deal with the problem by adding some sparsity penalties o…

2014-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Various problems in data analysis and statistical genetics call for recovery of a column-sparse, low-rank matrix from noisy observations. We propose ReFACTor, a simple variation of the classical Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (TSVD) algorithm. In contrast to previous sparse principal component analysis (PCA) al…

2017-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper compares two methods for inferring network structures in presence of latent confounders.

problem Inferring network structures in presence of latent confounders.
method Gaussian graphical models with latent variables (LVGGM) and PCA-based removal of confounding (PCA+GGM).
result Proposes a new method combining strengths of LVGGM and PCA+GGM, proving consistency and convergence rate.

We present a new technique called contrastive principal component analysis (cPCA) that is designed to discover low-dimensional structure that is unique to a dataset, or enriched in one dataset relative to other data. The technique is a generalization of standard PCA, for the setting where multiple datasets are availabl…

2017-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a new method for robust PCA -- the task of recovering a low-rank matrix from sparse corruptions that are of unknown value and support. Our method involves alternating between projecting appropriate residuals onto the set of low-rank matrices, and the set of sparse matrices; each projection is {\em non-convex…

2014-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The robust PCA problem, wherein, given an input data matrix that is the superposition of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix, we aim to separate out the low-rank and sparse components, is a well-studied problem in machine learning. One natural question that arises is that, as in the inductive setting, if features are…

2017-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we present a new algorithm for computing a low rank approximation of the product ATBA^TB by taking only a single pass of the two matrices AA and BB. The straightforward way to do this is to (a) first sketch AA and BB individually, and then (b) find the top components using PCA on the sketch. Our algori…

2016-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

We consider the sampling problem for functional PCA (fPCA), where the simplest example is the case of taking time samples of the underlying functional components. More generally, we model the sampling operation as a continuous linear map from H\mathcal{H} to Rm\mathbb{R}^m, where the functional components to lie in so…

2011-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Fast approximate nearest neighbor (NN) search in large databases is becoming popular. Several powerful learning-based formulations have been proposed recently. However, not much attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: how difficult is (approximate) nearest neighbor search in a given data set? And which …

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of learning a mixture of Random Utility Models (RUMs). Despite the success of RUMs in various domains and the versatility of mixture RUMs to capture the heterogeneity in preferences, there has been only limited progress in learning a mixture of RUMs from partial data such as pairwise comparisons…

2018-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

A minimalist approach generates synthetic tabular data with sparse PCA and XGBoost.

problem Generating robust synthetic tabular data for model testing.
method Minimalistic unsupervised SparsePCA encoder with XGBoost decoder.
result The method provides an alternative to raw and quantile perturbation for model robustness testing.

KAN-PCA improves asset return analysis by capturing more variance than classical PCA during market crises.

problem Inefficient classical PCA during market crises when correlations between assets change dramatically.
method KAN-PCA uses KAN (Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) with B-spline functions to learn nonlinear projections.
result KAN-PCA achieves a higher reconstruction R^2 (66.57%) compared to classical PCA (62.99%) on 20 S&P 500 stocks.

New algorithm solves fair PCA, robust PCA, and sparse PCA problems efficiently.

problem Fair Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) to ensure fairness in PCA solutions.
method Iterative MM algorithm with SDP reformulation to quadratic program.
result Algorithm monotonically improves fairness objectives at each iteration.

New methods improve feature extraction and representation quality in supervised and unsupervised DR.

problem Statistical dependence, data diversity, contrast, and interpretability in conventional DR methods.
method Combines linear and nonlinear formulations for three new independence criteria.
result Significant improvements in contrast, accuracy, and interpretability over baselines.

A new method for fair PCA ensures balanced error across groups.

problem Balancing approximation error across different groups in multi-group data.
method Iterative method to compute fair principal components minimizing max group-wise reconstruction error.
result Preserves the containment property of standard PCA and reduces to standard PCA for single-group data.

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 ↗

In this work, we develop a novel principal component analysis (PCA) for semimartingales by introducing a suitable spectral analysis for the quadratic variation operator. Motivated by high-dimensional complex systems typically found in interest rate markets, we investigate correlation in high-dimensional high-frequency …

2015-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes σσ-PCA to learn identifiable linear transformations without whitening.

problem Cannot identify axes with equal variances in PCA.
method Unified model for linear and nonlinear PCA, introducing a missing piece to eliminate rotational indeterminacy.
result Eliminates subspace rotational indeterminacy in PCA.

EB-PCA reduces noise in high-dimensional PCA by estimating a joint prior distribution.

problem High-dimensional PCA noise in samples comparable to or larger than data.
method Empirical Bayes PCA using Kiefer-Wolfowitz MLE, random matrix theory, and AMP algorithm.
result EB-PCA achieves Bayes-optimal accuracy in spiked models and significantly improves over PCA in simulations and real data.

DeepTensor uses deep networks to efficiently decompose tensors with improved performance and robustness.

problem Efficiently decomposing tensors with deep learning to capture nonlinear structures.
method Low-rank tensor decomposition using deep generative networks trained to minimize approximation error.
result DeepTensor outperforms classical methods like SVD and PCA in various applications, including image denoising and 3D MRI.