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Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) can recover low-rank matrices when they are corrupted by sparse noises. In practice, many matrices are, however, of high-rank and hence cannot be recovered by RPCA. We propose a novel method called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jicong Fan , Tommy W. S. Chow

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

Kernel methods are powerful learning methodologies that allow to perform non-linear data analysis. Despite their popularity, they suffer from poor scalability in big data scenarios. Various approximation methods, including random feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-14 Bharath Sriperumbudur , Nicholas Sterge

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique in machine learning, data analysis and signal processing. With the increase in the size and complexity of datasets, it has become important to develop low-space usage algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yichuan Deng , Zhao Song , Zifan Wang , Han Zhang

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

Sparse linear prediction methods suffer from decreased prediction accuracy when the predictor variables have cluster structure (e.g. there are highly correlated groups of variables). To improve prediction accuracy, various methods have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-03 Rebecca Marion , Johannes Lederer , Bernadette Govaerts , Rainer von Sachs

Local-search methods are widely employed in statistical applications, yet interestingly, their theoretical foundations remain rather underexplored, compared to other classes of estimators such as low-degree polynomials and spectral methods.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Max Lovig , Conor Sheehan , Konstantinos Tsirkas , Ilias Zadik

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) and Sparse Linear Regression (SLR) have a wide range of applications and have attracted a tremendous amount of attention in the last two decades as canonical examples of statistical problems in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Guy Bresler , Sung Min Park , Madalina Persu

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) has received much attention in the literature in the past decade. In this context, Sparse Polynomial chaos expansions (PCE) have been shown to be among the most promising methods because of their ability to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-17 N. Fajraoui , S. Marelli , B. Sudret

Classical methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) are ubiquitous in statistics. However, these techniques are only able to reveal linear relationships in data. Although nonlinear variants…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-14 David Lopez-Paz , Suvrit Sra , Alex Smola , Zoubin Ghahramani , Bernhard Schölkopf

Expressing a matrix as the sum of a low-rank matrix plus a sparse matrix is a flexible model capturing global and local features in data popularized as Robust PCA (Candes et al., 2011; Chandrasekaran et al., 2009). Compressed sensing,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Jared Tanner , Simon Vary

We study the computational cost of recovering a unit-norm sparse principal component $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ planted in a random matrix, in either the Wigner or Wishart spiked model (observing either $W + \lambda xx^\top$ with $W$ drawn from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Yunzi Ding , Dmitriy Kunisky , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira

Sparse PCA is a widely used technique for high-dimensional data analysis. In this paper, we propose a new method called low-rank principal eigenmatrix analysis. Different from sparse PCA, the dominant eigenvectors are allowed to be dense…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-30 Krishna Balasubramanian , Elynn Y. Chen , Jianqing Fan , Xiang Wu

It is well known that Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is strongly affected by outliers and a lot of effort has been put into robustification of PCA. In this paper we present a new algorithm for robust PCA minimizing the trimmed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-02 Anastasia Podosinnikova , Simon Setzer , Matthias Hein

Causal discovery methods based on the PC algorithm are proven to be sound if all structural assumptions are fulfilled and all conditional independence tests are correct. This idealized setting is rarely given in real data. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Sofia Faltenbacher , Jonas Wahl , Rebecca Herman , Jakob Runge

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

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

In clinical and biomedical research, multiple high-dimensional datasets are nowadays routinely collected from omics and imaging devices. Multivariate methods, such as Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), integrate two (or more) datasets to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-20 Nuria Senar , Mark van de Wiel , Aeilko Zwinderman , Michel Hof

We consider estimation and inference in a single index regression model with an unknown convex link function. We introduce a convex and Lipschitz constrained least squares estimator (CLSE) for both the parametric and the nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Arun K. Kuchibhotla , Rohit K. Patra , Bodhisattva Sen

Probabilistic Component Latent Analysis (PLCA) is a statistical modeling method for feature extraction from non-negative data. It has been fruitfully applied to various research fields of information retrieval. However, the EM-solved…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-16 D. Cazau , G. Nuel