Standard kernels such as Matérn or RBF kernels only encode simple monotonic dependencies within the input space. Spectral mixture kernels have been proposed as general-purpose, flexible kernels for learning and discovering more complicated patterns in the data. Spectral mixture kernels have recently been generalized in…
New algorithms improve spectral clustering for finite mixture models.
problem Issues with EM algorithm in spectral clustering.
method Spectral decomposition and non-parametric bootstrap sampling.
result Improved convergence and avoidance of poor solutions.
New theorem improves spectral gap for sampling from mixture distributions.
problem Sampling from multimodal distributions with simulated tempering.
method Introduced a decomposition theorem for the restricted spectral gap of simulated tempering.
result Lower bound on the restricted spectral gap for mixture distributions.
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.
New kernel models multi-output Gaussian processes accurately.
problem Challenges in modelling cross-covariances for multiple-output Gaussian processes.
method Replaced Gaussian components with block components of finite bandwidth in spectral mixture kernel.
result First multi-output generalization of spectral mixture kernel that can approximate any stationary multi-output kernel to arbitrary precision.
Multi-output Gaussian processes (MOGPs) are an extension of Gaussian Processes (GPs) for predicting multiple output variables (also called channels, tasks) simultaneously. In this paper we use the convolution theorem to design a new kernel for MOGPs, by modeling cross channel dependencies through cross convolution of t…
New spectral mixture representation for isotropic kernels simplifies random Fourier features.
problem Applying Random Fourier Features to complex kernels.
method Decompose isotropic kernels into scale mixtures of α-stable random vectors.
result Constructive spectral sampling formula for various kernels.
Clustering of data sets is a standard problem in many areas of science and engineering. The method of spectral clustering is based on embedding the data set using a kernel function, and using the top eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian to recover the connected components. We study the performance of spectral clust…
Refined analysis of Mitra's algorithm for discrete mixtures.
problem Classifying general discrete mixture distribution models.
method Spectral clustering tailored to bipartite stochastic block models.
result Improved separation conditions for probability distributions.
Develops nonstationary MOGP kernels for better performance.
problem Limited applicability of existing MOGP kernels for nonstationary data.
method Harmonizable spectral mixture kernels for nonstationary MOGP.
result Automatic identification of nonstationary behavior in data.
Improves learning of spectral mixture kernels with approximate Bayesian inference.
problem Difficult optimization of large number of SM kernel parameters.
method Approximate Bayesian inference using variational distribution of spectral points and random Fourier features.
result Accelerates convergence and leads to better optimal parameters.
This work provides a computationally efficient and statistically consistent moment-based estimator for mixtures of spherical Gaussians. Under the condition that component means are in general position, a simple spectral decomposition technique yields consistent parameter estimates from low-order observable moments, wit…
New spectral clustering method for multi-layer networks improves accuracy.
problem Detecting community structure in multi-layer networks.
method Integrative spectral clustering based on adaptive layer aggregation.
result Our methods minimize mis-clustering error and outperform existing methods.
In this paper, we study the spectrum and the eigenvectors of radial kernels for mixtures of distributions in Rn. Our approach focuses on high dimensions and relies solely on the concentration properties of the components in the mixture. We give several results describing of the structure of kernel matrices …
Study finds the minimum number of finite Gaussian mixtures for best approximation.
problem Finding the minimum number of finite Gaussian mixtures for best approximation.
method Local moment matching for upper bound and spectral analysis for lower bound.
result Corrects a previous lower bound in the case of Gaussian mixing distributions.
Flexible model captures varying scales in data clusters.
problem Real-world data often exhibits varying scales or intensities, violating the homogeneity assumption of classical Gaussian mixture models.
method Individual-heterogeneous sub-Gaussian mixture model with an efficient spectral method for exact recovery.
result The method provably achieves exact recovery of true cluster labels under mild separation conditions.
This paper studies clustering and embedding in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture block models.
problem Clustering and embedding in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture block models.
method Spectral clustering and embedding algorithms for graphs sampled from Gaussian mixture block models.
result Performance analysis of spectral clustering and embedding algorithms for 2-component spherical Gaussian mixtures.
Develops an ℓ_p theory for PCA and spectral clustering.
problem Lack of precise characterizations of PCA scores for low-dimensional embedding.
method An ℓ_p perturbation theory for PCA in Hilbert spaces, analyzing eigenvectors and Gram matrix.
result Optimal recovery results for Gaussian mixture and stochastic block models.
Gradient descent on DDPM objective learns Gaussian mixtures efficiently.
problem Learning Gaussian mixtures using gradient-based methods.
method Gradient descent on DDPM objective, connecting to EM and spectral methods.
result Gradient descent can efficiently recover Gaussian mixture parameters under certain conditions.
In this paper, we continue our previous work on the Dirichlet mixture model (DMM)-based VQ to derive the performance bound of the LSF VQ. The LSF parameters are transformed into the ΔLSF domain and the underlying distribution of the ΔLSF parameters are modelled by a DMM with finite number of mixture components. The…
Algorithm learns mixtures of Markov chains and MDPs from short trajectories.
problem Learning mixtures of Markov chains and MDPs from short unlabeled trajectories.
method Subspace estimation, spectral clustering, EM algorithm, model estimation, classification.
result 96.6% average accuracy on a mixture of two MDPs in gridworld, outperforming EM algorithm with random initialization.
New algorithm clusters Gaussian mixtures with unknown covariance efficiently.
problem Clustering data from a mixture of Gaussians with unknown covariance.
method Developed an efficient spectral algorithm based on a Max-Cut integer program.
result Achieves optimal misclassification rate with quadratic sample size.
Study local geometry of mixture models via spectral theory, revealing transitions in training dynamics.
problem Understanding the local geometry of high-dimensional mixture models.
method Spectral theory of Hessian and information matrices, focusing on i.i.d. Gaussian mixtures.
result Exact formulas for limits of spectral distribution and outlier eigenvalues, connecting training dynamics to effective dynamics.
Transformers solve Gaussian Mixture Models without supervision.
problem Solving Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) unsupervised.
method Proposes TGMM, a transformer-based framework for GMM tasks.
result Transformers can effectively solve GMM tasks, improving upon classical methods.
Proposes a new model for mixed membership in Gaussian mixture.
problem Limited to single component membership in Gaussian mixture models.
method Mixed membership sub-Gaussian model, spectral algorithm.
result Estimation error can be made arbitrarily small with high probability.
FASC clusters data with latent factors, improving on naive methods.
problem Clustering high-dimensional data with correlated variables.
method Factor Adjusted Spectral Clustering (FASC) algorithm.
result FASC achieves an exponentially low mislabeling rate under general assumptions.
The problem of Hybrid Linear Modeling (HLM) is to model and segment data using a mixture of affine subspaces. Different strategies have been proposed to solve this problem, however, rigorous analysis justifying their performance is missing. This paper suggests the Theoretical Spectral Curvature Clustering (TSCC) algori…
New method identifies latent treatment effects from proxy models.
problem Identifying heterogeneous treatment effects under unobserved confounding.
method Compressed observable operator and spectral analysis of treatment effects.
result Eigenvalues of the operator represent latent treatment effects.
New method clusters high-dimensional data with anisotropic noise.
problem Clustering high-dimensional anisotropic mixtures with varying noise structures.
method Covariance Projected Spectral Clustering (COPO) method that projects data onto a low-dimensional space and reassigns clusters based on estimated covariances.
result COPO achieves minimax-optimal misclustering rates in Gaussian settings.
Enhances GPLVM for multi-view data with scalable latent representation learning.
problem Limited kernel expressiveness and computational inefficiency in multi-view GPLVM.
method Introduces a new duality between spectral density and kernel function, uses NG-SM kernel, and applies random Fourier feature approximation for scalability.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models in learning meaningful latent representations across diverse datasets.
The paper corrects for node degree in spectral clustering using random walk Laplacian.
problem Node degree heterogeneity in spectral clustering.
method Graph spectral embedding using the random walk Laplacian.
result The embedding provides uniformly consistent estimates of degree-corrected latent positions.
When estimating finite mixture models, it is common to make assumptions on the mixture components, such as parametric assumptions. In this work, we make no distributional assumptions on the mixture components and instead assume that observations from the mixture model are grouped, such that observations in the same gro…
PolyNSD improves Neural Sheaf Diffusion with polynomial operators and spectral rescaling.
problem Limitations of common Neural Sheaf Diffusion implementations, including scalability and stability issues.
method Introduces Polynomial Neural Sheaf Diffusion (PolyNSD) with a degree-K polynomial propagation operator and spectral rescaling.
result PolyNSD achieves state-of-the-art results on both homophilic and heterophilic benchmarks with reduced runtime and memory requirements.
Estimates MLDS using tensor decomposition, improving upon existing methods.
problem Learning mixtures of linear dynamical systems from input-output data.
method Proposes a moment-based estimator using tensor decomposition.
result Improves sample complexity bounds for estimating MLDS.
The expressive power of Gaussian processes depends heavily on the choice of kernel. In this work we propose the novel harmonizable mixture kernel (HMK), a family of expressive, interpretable, non-stationary kernels derived from mixture models on the generalized spectral representation. As a theoretically sound treatmen…
Nonparametric models are versatile, albeit computationally expensive, tool for modeling mixture models. In this paper, we introduce spectral methods for the two most popular nonparametric models: the Indian Buffet Process (IBP) and the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP). We show that using spectral methods for the in…
Spectral mixture (SM) kernels comprise a powerful class of generalized kernels for Gaussian processes (GPs) to describe complex patterns. This paper introduces model compression and time- and phase (TP) modulated dependency structures to the original (SM) kernel for improved generalization of GPs. Specifically, by adop…
Clustering is concerned with coherently grouping observations without any explicit concept of true groupings. Spectral graph clustering - clustering the vertices of a graph based on their spectral embedding - is commonly approached via K-means (or, more generally, Gaussian mixture model) clustering composed with either…
Paper explores statistical and computational limits of estimating low-rank Gaussian mixtures.
problem Estimating low-rank matrix-variate observations with optimal statistical and computational limits.
method Low-rank Gaussian mixture model (LrMM) and minimax lower bounds.
result Minimax optimality of maximum likelihood estimator and spectral aggregation method.
EGO-MDA identifies optimal spectral-bands for process discrimination.
problem Optimal spectral-bands for process discrimination.
method EGO-MDA, an unsupervised method using EGO and Mixture Discriminant Analysis.
result EGO-MDA achieves at least 70% improvement in median deviance.
Spectral methods have greatly advanced the estimation of latent variable models, generating a sequence of novel and efficient algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees. However, current spectral algorithms are largely restricted to mixtures of discrete or Gaussian distributions. In this paper, we propose a kernel m…
New accelerators for EM improve convergence speed in complex mixture models.
problem Improving the convergence speed of the EM algorithm for complex mixture models.
method Derive a new operator connecting global descent and local convergence, and use it to develop two acceleration strategies.
result Two new acceleration strategies (G-Accelerator and Geo-Adaptive) significantly improve EM algorithm performance.
A method to remove mean-shift noise from PCA using knockoffs.
problem High sensitivity of PCA to mean-shift contamination in high-dimensional data.
method Introducing knockoff mean-shift perturbation to separate and remove mean-shift components from PCA.
result The mean-shift spikes are spectrally separable from stable eigenvalues, allowing for robust PCA.
Unified approach for interpretable regression with flexible modeling.
problem Combining predictive adaptivity with interpretability in heterogeneous data.
method Combining random Fourier features, spectral feature map, principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture model, and cluster-specific generalized additive models.
result Consistently improves upon classical and black-box models across benchmark datasets.
Monoaural audio source separation is a challenging research area in machine learning. In this area, a mixture containing multiple audio sources is given, and a model is expected to disentangle the mixture into isolated atomic sources. In this paper, we first introduce a challenging new dataset for monoaural source sepa…
Efficiently marginalizes over Gaussian Process kernels for better model flexibility and uncertainty.
problem Inefficient marginalization over Gaussian Process kernels for large datasets.
method Bayesian Quadrature scheme with maximum mean discrepancies and invariances between Spectral Mixture kernels.
result Achieves more accurate predictions and better calibrated uncertainty than state-of-the-art baselines.
New ICA method for sources with mixed spectra.
problem Inaccurate separation of sources with temporal autocorrelations and mixed spectra.
method Estimates spectral density functions and line spectra using cubic splines and indicator functions, then maximizes the Whittle likelihood function.
result Outperforms existing ICA methods in simulations and EEG data applications.
Early approaches to multiple-output Gaussian processes (MOGPs) relied on linear combinations of independent, latent, single-output Gaussian processes (GPs). This resulted in cross-covariance functions with limited parametric interpretation, thus conflicting with the ability of single-output GPs to understand lengthscal…