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We present a Bayesian non-negative tensor factorization model for count-valued tensor data, and develop scalable inference algorithms (both batch and online) for dealing with massive tensors. Our generative model can handle overdispersed…

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We consider the line spectral estimation problem which aims to recover a mixture of complex sinusoids from a small number of randomly observed time domain samples. Compressed sensing methods formulates line spectral estimation as a sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Jun Fang , Linxiao Yang , Hongbin Li

Candecomp / PARAFAC (CP) decomposition, a generalization of the matrix singular value decomposition to higher-dimensional tensors, is a popular tool for analyzing multidimensional sparse data. On tensors with billions of nonzero entries,…

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Given sparse multi-dimensional data (e.g., (user, movie, time; rating) for movie recommendations), how can we discover latent concepts/relations and predict missing values? Tucker factorization has been widely used to solve such problems…

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We propose a unified probabilistic framework for sparse count tensors with excess zeros, motivated by single-cell Hi-C data. The observed data are naturally represented as a three-way tensor indexed by genomic loci pairs and cells,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-27 Elena Tuzhilina , Yaoming Zhen

We propose a novel statistical inference methodology for multiway count data that is corrupted by false zeros that are indistinguishable from true zero counts. Our approach consists of zero-truncating the Poisson distribution to neglect all…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-10 Oscar López , Daniel M. Dunlavy , Richard B. Lehoucq

We present a scalable Bayesian model for low-rank factorization of massive tensors with binary observations. The proposed model has the following key properties: (1) in contrast to the models based on the logistic or probit likelihood,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-19 Changwei Hu , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Tensor methods have emerged as a powerful paradigm for consistent learning of many latent variable models such as topic models, independent component analysis and dictionary learning. Model parameters are estimated via CP decomposition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Furong Huang , Animashree Anandkumar

We introduce Poisson-response tensor-on-tensor regression (PToTR), a novel regression framework designed to handle tensor responses composed element-wise of random Poisson-distributed counts. Tensors, or multi-dimensional arrays, composed…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-10 Carlos Llosa-Vite , Daniel M. Dunlavy

Tensor CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition has wide applications in statistical learning of latent variable models and in data mining. In this paper, we propose fast and randomized tensor CP decomposition algorithms based on sketching. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-21 Yining Wang , Hsiao-Yu Tung , Alexander Smola , Animashree Anandkumar

One popular way to compute the CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition of a tensor is to transform the problem into a sequence of overdetermined least squares subproblems with Khatri-Rao product (KRP) structure involving factor matrices. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yajie Yu , Hanyu Li

We establish parameter inference for the Poisson canonical polyadic (PCP) model of tensor count data through a latent-variable formulation. Our approach exploits the property that any random tensor that follows the PCP model can be derived…

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The observations in many applications consist of counts of discrete events, such as photons hitting a detector, which cannot be effectively modeled using an additive bounded or Gaussian noise model, and instead require a Poisson noise…

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In this paper we study the problem of noisy tensor completion for tensors that admit a canonical polyadic or CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition with one of the factors being sparse. We present general theoretical error bounds for an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-11 Swayambhoo Jain , Alexander Gutierrez , Jarvis Haupt

High-dimensional tensor-valued predictors arise in modern applications, increasingly as learned representations from neural networks. Existing tensor classification methods rely on sparsity or Tucker structures and often lack theoretical…

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We propose a flexible nonparametric Bayesian modelling framework for multivariate time series of count data based on tensor factorisations. Our models can be viewed as infinite state space Markov chains of known maximal order with…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-13 Zhongzhen Wang , Petros Dellaportas , Ioannis Kosmidis

A variety of machine learning tasks---e.g., matrix factorization, topic modelling, and feature allocation---can be viewed as learning the parameters of a probability distribution over bipartite graphs. Recently, a new class of models for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-07 Victor Veitch , Ekansh Sharma , Zacharie Naulet , Daniel M. Roy

This paper presents Sparse Partitioning, a Bayesian method for identifying predictors that either individually or in combination with others affect a response variable. The method is designed for regression problems involving binary or…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-08-31 Doug Speed , Simon Tavaré

Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

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