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Sparse principal component analysis with global support (SPCAgs), is the problem of finding the top-$r$ leading principal components such that all these principal components are linear combinations of a common subset of at most $k$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Santanu S. Dey , Marco Molinaro , Guanyi Wang

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) involves nonconvex optimization for which the global solution is hard to obtain. To address this issue, one popular approach is convex relaxation. However, such an approach may produce suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-25 Zhaoran Wang , Huanran Lu , Han Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of decomposing a superposition of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix when a relatively few linear measurements are available. This problem arises in many data processing tasks such as aligning multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Arvind Ganesh , Kerui Min , John Wright , Yi Ma

Matrix completion constantly receives tremendous attention from many research fields. It is commonly applied for recommender systems such as movie ratings, computer vision such as image reconstruction or completion, multi-task learning such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Abdallah Chehade , Zunya Shi

Many high dimensional sparse learning problems are formulated as nonconvex optimization. A popular approach to solve these nonconvex optimization problems is through convex relaxations such as linear and semidefinite programming. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Zhaoran Wang , Quanquan Gu , Han Liu

We study sparse principal component analysis for high dimensional vector autoregressive time series under a doubly asymptotic framework, which allows the dimension $d$ to scale with the series length $T$. We treat the transition matrix of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-02 Zhaoran Wang , Fang Han , Han Liu

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a high-dimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish lower bounds on the rates of convergence of the estimators of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Debashis Paul , Iain M. Johnstone

Principal component analysis is a versatile tool to reduce dimensionality which has wide applications in statistics and machine learning. It is particularly useful for modeling data in high-dimensional scenarios where the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-18 Xiaoyu Hu , Fang Yao

Estimating covariance matrices with high-dimensional complex data presents significant challenges, particularly concerning positive definiteness, sparsity, and numerical stability. Existing robust sparse estimators often fail to guarantee…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Shaoxin Wang , Ziyun Ma

Estimating a covariance matrix and its associated principal components is a fundamental problem in contemporary statistics. While optimal estimation procedures have been developed with well-understood properties, the increasing demand for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-30 T. Tony Cai , Dong Xia , Mengyue Zha

Supervised learning methods with missing data have been extensively studied not just due to the techniques related to low-rank matrix completion. Also in unsupervised learning one often relies on imputation methods. As a matter of fact,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Andreas Elsener , Sara van de Geer

We consider high-dimensional measurement errors with high-frequency data. Our objective is on recovering the high-dimensional cross-sectional covariance matrix of the random errors with optimality. In this problem, not all components of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Jinyuan Chang , Qiao Hu , Cheng Liu , Cheng Yong Tang

In this paper, we study the detection boundary for minimax hypothesis testing in the context of high-dimensional, sparse binary regression models. Motivated by genetic sequencing association studies for rare variant effects, we investigate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Rajarshi Mukherjee , Natesh S. Pillai , Xihong Lin

We study the detection of a sparse change in a high-dimensional mean vector as a minimax testing problem. Our first main contribution is to derive the exact minimax testing rate across all parameter regimes for $n$ independent, $p$-variate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Haoyang Liu , Chao Gao , Richard J. Samworth

This paper considers the problem of recovery of a low-rank matrix in the situation when most of its entries are not observed and a fraction of observed entries are corrupted. The observations are noisy realizations of the sum of a low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Olga Klopp , Karim Lounici , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We revisit the problem of robust principal component analysis with features acting as prior side information. To this aim, a novel, elegant, non-convex optimization approach is proposed to decompose a given observation matrix into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-15 Niannan Xue , Jiankang Deng , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Sparse PCA is the optimization problem obtained from PCA by adding a sparsity constraint on the principal components. Sparse PCA is NP-hard and hard to approximate even in the single-component case. In this paper we settle the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Alberto Del Pia

This paper deals with sparse phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of estimating a vector from quadratic measurements under the assumption that few components are nonzero. In particular, we consider the problem of finding the sparsest vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Fabien Lauer , Henrik Ohlsson

Principal component analysis (PCA) is possibly one of the most widely used statistical tools to recover a low-rank structure of the data. In the high-dimensional settings, the leading eigenvector of the sample covariance can be nearly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Chao Gao , Harrison H. 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