New method clusters matrix-variate data with outliers.
problem Clustering matrix-variate data with outliers.
method Iterative approach using subset log-likelihoods.
result Extends OCLUST algorithm to matrix-variate normal data.
New clustering method for skewed matrix variate data.
problem Clustering high-dimensional matrix variate data with skewness and kurtosis.
method Mixtures of skewed matrix variate bilinear factor analyzers.
result Four new mixture models for skewed matrix variate data.
Paper develops a classification method using matrix-variate t-distributions.
problem Classifying matrix-valued observations with dependence structure.
method Develops an Expectation-Maximization algorithm for discriminant analysis.
result Method shows promise on various datasets.
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…
Improved neural network inference with eigenvalue correction.
problem Inference of flexible variational posteriors is computationally expensive.
method Eigenvalue correction to matrix-variate Gaussian posterior.
result Empirically, the method outperforms existing algorithms.
We propose a novel hierarchical model for multitask bipartite ranking. The proposed approach combines a matrix-variate Gaussian process with a generative model for task-wise bipartite ranking. In addition, we employ a novel trace constrained variational inference approach to impose low rank structure on the posterior m…
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…
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.
Paper finds a lower bound for estimating low-rank matrices in logistic regression.
problem Estimating low-rank coefficient matrices in logistic regression.
method Derives a minimax lower bound on the risk.
result The bound depends on matrix dimensions, rank, and sample size.
Two new methods estimate quantum density matrices using machine learning.
problem Estimating the quantum density matrix for complex systems.
method Quantum Maximum Likelihood and Quantum Variational Inference with quantum flows.
result Improved estimation of quantum density matrices for mixed states.
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.
Enhances SVGD with matrix-valued kernels for faster inference.
problem Efficient approximate inference in complex probability landscapes.
method Integrates geometric information through matrix-valued kernels in SVGD.
result Significant improvement in real-world Bayesian inference tasks.
New method infers graph from dependent matrix data.
problem Inferring graph from dependent matrix data.
method Sparse-group lasso-based frequency-domain formulation with ADMM approach.
result Local convergence of inverse PSD estimators to true value.
Due to challenging applications such as collaborative filtering, the matrix completion problem has been widely studied in the past few years. Different approaches rely on different structure assumptions on the matrix in hand. Here, we focus on the completion of a (possibly) low-rank matrix with binary entries, the so-c…
The problem of low rank matrix completion is considered in this paper. To exploit the underlying low-rank structure of the data matrix, we propose a hierarchical Gaussian prior model, where columns of the low-rank matrix are assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution with zero mean and a common precision matrix, and a W…
New distribution simplifies covariance matrix inference.
problem Efficient inference for covariance matrices in large models.
method Incorporates Inverse G-Wishart distribution for variational message passing.
result Elegant and succinct expression of variational message passing fragments.
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.
Proposes a robust factor analysis for matrix data.
problem Robust factor analysis for matrix data with heavy-tailed or contaminated data.
method Bilinear factor analysis based on the matrix-variate t distribution. result Significantly higher breakdown point than traditional methods.
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…
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…
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 Cij 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 Cij has a power-law form in the bulk followed by …
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…
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…
Paper proposes a second-order method for faster SVI convergence.
problem Poor convergence rate of first-order SVI algorithms.
method Derives Hessian matrix and implements two numerical schemes for efficient second-order SVI.
result Proposed approach achieves faster convergence compared to first-order SVI.
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.
Beta process is the standard nonparametric Bayesian prior for latent factor model. In this paper, we derive a structured mean-field variational inference algorithm for a beta process non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) model with Poisson likelihood. Unlike the linear Gaussian model, which is well-studied in the non…
Quantum method speeds up VB estimation in machine learning.
problem Prohibitively expensive natural gradient in high dimensions.
method Regression-based natural gradient estimation with quantum matrix inversion.
result Quantum method enables efficient VB estimation.
New method trains sparse Gaussian processes without matrix inversion.
problem Costly training of Gaussian processes at scale.
method Inverse-free approach using matmul-only natural-gradient updates.
result Significantly improved stability and convergence in training.
We face network data from various sources, such as protein interactions and online social networks. A critical problem is to model network interactions and identify latent groups of network nodes. This problem is challenging due to many reasons. For example, the network nodes are interdependent instead of independent o…
This work formulates a novel song recommender system as a matrix completion problem that benefits from collaborative filtering through Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and content-based filtering via total variation (TV) on graphs. The graphs encode both playlist proximity information and song similarity, using …
A new method combines multiple cancer datasets to improve analysis.
problem Combining multiple cancer datasets for comprehensive analysis.
method Multiple Augmented Reduced Rank Regression (maRRR) method.
result Improved power and insights from combining multiple cancer datasets.
RFPCA improves robustness of FPCA for matrix data.
problem Outliers in matrix data degrade the performance of FPCA.
method RFPCA uses matrix-variate t-distribution and EM algorithm for robust estimation.
result RFPCA outperforms other methods in detecting matrix-valued outliers.
In this paper, we study the trade-offs of different inference approaches for Bayesian matrix factorisation methods, which are commonly used for predicting missing values, and for finding patterns in the data. In particular, we consider Bayesian nonnegative variants of matrix factorisation and tri-factorisation, and com…
VNNGP uses nearest neighbors to approximate GPs, improving scalability and performance.
problem Scalability issues in Gaussian process approximations.
method Sparse precision structure via nearest neighbors, variational framework.
result VNNGP outperforms low-rank methods and is less prone to overfitting.
PRISM identifies simplex vertices from noisy data.
problem Identifying vertices of a simplex from noisy data.
method Probabilistic simplex model with maximum likelihood inference.
result Vertices are identifiable under certain assumptions.
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.