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In this work, we address the problem of outlier detection for robust motion estimation by using modern sparse-low-rank decompositions, i.e., Robust PCA-like methods, to impose global rank constraints. Robust decompositions have shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-23 German Ros , Jose Alvarez , Julio Guerrero

We consider the dimensionality-reduction problem (finding a subspace approximation of observed data) for contaminated data in the high dimensional regime, where the number of observations is of the same magnitude as the number of variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-05-14 Huan Xu , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for analyzing multivariate data. Here the focus is on dimension reduction to the principal subspace, characterized by its projection matrix. The classical principal subspace can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

We study high-dimensional sparse estimation tasks in a robust setting where a constant fraction of the dataset is adversarially corrupted. Specifically, we focus on the fundamental problems of robust sparse mean estimation and robust sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Sushrut Karmalkar , Daniel Kane , Eric Price , Alistair Stewart

Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis (TRPCA) is a fundamental technique for decomposing multi-dimensional data into a low-rank tensor and an outlier tensor, yet existing methods relying on sparse outlier assumptions often fail under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yangyang Xu , Kexin Li , Li Yang , You-Wei Wen

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix (the principal components) from a high-dimensional data matrix despite both small entry-wise noise and gross sparse errors. Recently, it has been shown that a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Zihan Zhou , Xiaodong Li , John Wright , Emmanuel Candes , Yi Ma

We consider the problem of outlier robust PCA (OR-PCA) where the goal is to recover principal directions despite the presence of outlier data points. That is, given a data matrix $M^*$, where $(1-\alpha)$ fraction of the points are noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli

In the past decades, exactly recovering the intrinsic data structure from corrupted observations, which is known as robust principal component analysis (RPCA), has attracted tremendous interests and found many applications in computer…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Risheng Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Siming Wei , Zhixun Su

This paper presents a remarkably simple, yet powerful, algorithm termed Coherence Pursuit (CoP) to robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As inliers lie in a low dimensional subspace and are mostly correlated, an inlier is likely to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

We consider the problem of Robust PCA in the fully and partially observed settings. Without corruptions, this is the well-known matrix completion problem. From a statistical standpoint this problem has been recently well-studied, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Xinyang Yi , Dohyung Park , Yudong Chen , Constantine Caramanis

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most important unsupervised methods to handle high-dimensional data. However, due to the high computational complexity of its eigen decomposition solution, it hard to apply PCA to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Feiping Nie , Heng Huang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique in machine learning and multivariate statistics. To improve the interpretability of PCA, various approaches to obtain sparse principal direction loadings have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Agniva Chowdhury , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a cardinal technique for obtaining combinations of features, or principal components (PCs), that explain the variance of high-dimensional datasets in an interpretable manner. This involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Praneeth Netrapalli , U N Niranjan , Sujay Sanghavi , Animashree Anandkumar , Prateek Jain

Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has received massive attention in recent years. It aims to recover a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix from their sum. This paper proposes a novel nonconvex Robust PCA algorithm, coined Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Keaton Hamm , Mohamed Meskini , HanQin Cai

We study the problem of estimating a low-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix from a set of rank-one measurements using sensing vectors composed of i.i.d. standard Gaussian entries, which are possibly corrupted by arbitrary outliers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yuanxin Li , Yue Sun , Yuejie Chi

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most widely used tool for linear dimensionality reduction and clustering. Still it is highly sensitive to outliers and does not scale well with respect to the number of data samples. Robust PCA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Nauman Shahid , Vassilis Kalofolias , Xavier Bresson , Michael Bronstein , Pierre Vandergheynst

Robust principal component analysis seeks to recover a low-rank matrix from fully observed data with sparse corruptions. A scalable approach fits a low-rank factorization by minimizing the sum of entrywise absolute residuals, leading to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Pinxi Gong , Lexiao Lai , Jianhao Ma

Singular value decomposition (SVD) based principal component analysis (PCA) breaks down in the high-dimensional and limited sample size regime below a certain critical eigen-SNR that depends on the dimensionality of the system and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Arvind Prasadan , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Debashis Paul

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimensionality reduction technique for obtaining principal components which are linear combinations of a small subset of the original features. Existing approaches cannot supply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet