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48 results for matrix variate

A new optimization algorithm for Gaussian Variational Inference on precision matrices.

problem Complex models with positive definite constraints on covariance matrices.
method Manifold Gaussian Variational Bayes (MGVBP) with natural gradient updates.
result Empirically validated as a feasible and efficient solution for VI in complex models.

Variational inference improves neural network matrix factorization for stochastic blockmodels.

problem Improving predictive performance of neural network matrix factorization for stochastic blockmodels.
method Construct Bayesian neural networks and fit with variational inference.
result Variational inference can achieve equivalent performance to neural networks on Movielens data.

Over the years data has become increasingly higher dimensional, which has prompted an increased need for dimension reduction techniques. This is perhaps especially true for clustering (unsupervised classification) as well as semi-supervised and supervised classification. Although dimension reduction in the area of clus…

2017-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Undirected graphs can be used to describe matrix variate distributions. In this paper, we develop new methods for estimating the graphical structures and underlying parameters, namely, the row and column covariance and inverse covariance matrices from the matrix variate data. Under sparsity conditions, we show that one…

2012-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

A distributed framework for reducing high-dimensional matrix-variate time series data.

problem Reducing dimensionality of high-dimensional, heterogeneous matrix-variate time series data.
method Data partitioning, distributed two-dimensional tensor PCA, aggregation, final PCA, factor matrix computation.
result Preserves latent matrix structure, improves computational efficiency and information utilization.

This paper proposes robust matrix variate regression models with rank constraints and vector regularization.

problem High dimensional and noisy matrix-valued predictors in regression models.
method Rank constraint, vector regularization, alternating projected gradient descent algorithm.
result The proposed method achieves the minimax rate of estimation errors.

Nonnegative sectional curvature linked to matrix displacement convexity.

problem Nonnegative sectional curvature in Riemannian manifolds.
method Matrix displacement convexity as a criterion for nonnegative sectional curvature.
result Entropy functional matrix displacement convexity implies nonnegative sectional curvature.

New method for hyperparameter tuning in sparse matrix factorization.

problem Hyperparameter tuning in sparse matrix factorization.
method Numerical method based on evaluating the zero point of normalization factor in sparse matrix prior.
result Our method outperforms existing algorithms in ground-truth sparse matrix reconstruction.

VAE enhances NMF for probabilistic non-negative matrix factorisation.

problem Non-negative matrix factorisation with probabilistic coefficients.
method Design a VAE network with non-negative weights and non-negative Weibull distribution.
result Effective probabilistic NMF for generating new data and linking latent and input variables.

This project compares MCMC and VI for Bayesian PMF on MovieLens.

problem Intractable posterior distribution in PMF.
method Employed MCMC and VI for Bayesian inference on MovieLens.
result VI converges faster, MCMC provides more accurate estimates.

Method estimates noise transition matrix from noisy labels without relying on unreliable class-posterior estimation.

problem Estimating noise transition matrix from noisy data.
method Total variation regularization to encourage distinguishable predicted probabilities.
result Consistent estimator of the noise transition matrix under mild assumptions.

Paper proposes a method for estimating complex low-rank matrices from phase-only measurements.

problem Estimating complex low-rank matrices from magnitude-only measurements.
method A hierarchical prior model with a Gaussian-Wishart distribution is used to promote low-rankness. A variational EM algorithm is developed to solve the problem.
result The proposed method is less sensitive to initialization and performs well with random initialization.

Proposes a new model for image restoration combining deep learning and total variation.

problem Restoring images from limited data with low-rank constraints insufficient.
method Regularized Deep Matrix Factorized (RDMF) model using deep neural network's low-rank bias and total variation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in image restoration from few observations.

We present a fast variational Bayesian algorithm for performing non-negative matrix factorisation and tri-factorisation. We show that our approach achieves faster convergence per iteration and timestep (wall-clock) than Gibbs sampling and non-probabilistic approaches, and do not require additional samples to estimate t…

2016-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient-based optimization improves variational empirical Bayes regression.

problem Sparse, large-scale multiple regression models.
method Gradient-based optimization (GradVI) for variational empirical Bayes (VEB) regression.
result GradVI produces similar predictive performance to CAVI but converges faster and is faster in certain settings.

Estimates covariance matrices for matrix-variate data via core covariance geometry.

problem Estimating covariance matrices for matrix-variate data with partial isotropy.
method Fixed-rank core covariance geometry, partial-isotropy rank-r core shrinkage estimator.
result The geometry of the space of rank-r cores is a smooth manifold.

The paper analyzes the error in variational Bayesian NMF compared to Bayesian NMF.

problem Analyzing the variational approximation error in Bayesian NMF.
method Using algebraic geometrical methods, the paper derives an upper bound for the learning coefficient and a lower bound for the approximation error.
result The paper finds a lower bound for the approximation error, showing how well VBNMF approximates Bayesian NMF.

Transposable data represents interactions among two sets of entities, and are typically represented as a matrix containing the known interaction values. Additional side information may consist of feature vectors specific to entities corresponding to the rows and/or columns of such a matrix. Further information may also…

2014-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method combines MCMC and VI using contrastive divergence.

problem Improving variational inference by incorporating MCMC steps.
method Introducing variational contrastive divergence (VCD) to optimize variational parameters.
result Optimizing VCD leads to better predictive performance in latent variable models.

We study the cross-correlation matrix CijC_{ij} of inventory variations of the most active individual and institutional investors in an emerging market to understand the dynamics of inventory variations. We find that the distribution of cross-correlation coefficient CijC_{ij} has a power-law form in the bulk followed by …

2012-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of learning a Gaussian variational approximation to the posterior distribution for a high-dimensional parameter, where we impose sparsity in the precision matrix to reflect appropriate conditional independence structure in the model. Incorporating sparsity in the precision matrix allows the Gaus…

2016-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Differential privacy mechanism design has traditionally been tailored for a scalar-valued query function. Although many mechanisms such as the Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms can be extended to a matrix-valued query function by adding i.i.d. noise to each element of the matrix, this method is often suboptimal as it for…

2018-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances speech in noisy environments using neural networks and NMF.

problem Speaker-independent multichannel speech enhancement in unknown noisy conditions.
method Uses variational autoencoders for supervised speech modeling and NMF for unsupervised noise modeling.
result The proposed approach outperforms NMF-based methods in noisy environments.

QBVI uses natural gradients for efficient Bayesian learning.

problem Efficient Bayesian learning in complex models.
method Natural gradient updates in a black-box framework for exponential-family distributions.
result QBVI framework is effective for a wide range of Bayesian inference problems.