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Tensor PCA from basis in tensor space

Numerical Analysis 2024-10-28 v3 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Numerical Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a mathematical framework for tensor PCA. The proposed approach is able to overcome the limitations of previous methods that extract a low dimensional subspace by iteratively solving an optimization problem. The core of the proposed approach is the derivation of a basis in tensor space from a real self-adjoint tensor operator, thus reducing the problem of deriving a basis to an eigenvalue problem. Three different cases have been studied to derive: i) a basis from a self-adjoint tensor operator; ii) a rank-1 basis; iii) a basis in a subspace. In particular, the equivalence between eigenvalue equation for a real self-adjoint tensor operator and standard matrix eigenvalue equation has been proven. For all the three cases considered, a subspace approach has been adopted to derive a tensor PCA. Experiments on image datasets validate the proposed mathematical framework.

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@article{arxiv.2305.02803,
  title  = {Tensor PCA from basis in tensor space},
  author = {Claudio Turchetti and Laura Falaschetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02803},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This version contains a new experiment better showing the potentiality of the paper and a corrected autor list. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication

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