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Bayesian factor analysis is routinely used for dimensionality reduction in modeling of high-dimensional covariance matrices. Factor analytic decompositions express the covariance as a sum of a low rank and diagonal matrix. In practice,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Shounak Chattopadhyay , Anru R. Zhang , David B. Dunson

Addressing selection bias in latent variable causal discovery is important yet underexplored, largely due to a lack of suitable statistical tools: While various tools beyond basic conditional independencies have been developed to handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Haoyue Dai , Yiwen Qiu , Ignavier Ng , Xinshuai Dong , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Its conceptual appeal and effectiveness has made latent factor modeling an indispensable tool for multivariate analysis. Despite its popularity across many fields, there are outstanding methodological challenges that have hampered practical…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-12 Kenichiro McAlinn , Veronika Rockova , Enakshi Saha

Because tensor data appear more and more frequently in various scientific researches and real-world applications, analyzing the relationship between tensor features and the univariate outcome becomes an elementary task in many fields. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiaqi Zhang , Beilun Wang

Tensors have broad applications in neuroimaging, data mining, digital marketing, etc. CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) tensor decomposition can effectively reduce the number of parameters to gain dimensionality-reduction and thus plays a key role in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Qiushi Bu , Hua Liang , Xinyu Zhang , Jiahui Zou

We consider the problem of factorizing a structured 3-way tensor into its constituent Canonical Polyadic (CP) factors. This decomposition, which can be viewed as a generalization of singular value decomposition (SVD) for tensors, reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Sirisha Rambhatla , Xingguo Li , Jarvis Haupt

We construct a classifier which attains the rate of convergence $\log n/n$ under sparsity and margin assumptions. An approach close to the one met in approximation theory for the estimation of function is used to obtain this result. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Guillaume Lecué

Statistical inference for tensors has emerged as a critical challenge in analyzing high-dimensional data in modern data science. This paper introduces a unified framework for inferring general and low-Tucker-rank linear functionals of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Ke Xu , Elynn Chen , Yuefeng Han

Low rank tensor representation underpins much of recent progress in tensor completion. In real applications, however, this approach is confronted with two challenging problems, namely (1) tensor rank determination; (2) handling real tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Lei Zhang , Wei Wei , Qinfeng Shi , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

Tensor decomposition is a powerful computational tool for multiway data analysis. Many popular tensor decomposition approaches---such as the Tucker decomposition and CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP)---amount to multi-linear factorization. They are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Zenglin Xu , Feng Yan , Yuan , Qi

We develop sampling algorithms to fit Bayesian hierarchical models, the computational complexity of which scales linearly with the number of observations and the number of parameters in the model. We focus on crossed random effect and…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-03 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Timothée Stumpf-Fétizon , Giacomo Zanella

We study the problem of low-rank tensor factorization in the presence of missing data. We ask the following question: how many sampled entries do we need, to efficiently and exactly reconstruct a tensor with a low-rank orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-12 Prateek Jain , Sewoong Oh

We propose a Bayesian tensor-on-tensor regression approach to predict a multidimensional array (tensor) of arbitrary dimensions from another tensor of arbitrary dimensions, building upon the Tucker decomposition of the regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-21 Kunbo Wang , Yanxun Xu

We consider full Bayesian inference in the multivariate normal mean model in the situation that the mean vector is sparse. The prior distribution on the vector of means is constructed hierarchically by first choosing a collection of nonzero…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-07 Ismaël Castillo , Aad van der Vaart

Counterfactual explanations utilize feature perturbations to analyze the outcome of an original decision and recommend an actionable recourse. We argue that it is beneficial to provide several alternative explanations rather than a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Natraj Raman , Daniele Magazzeni , Sameena Shah

The problem of low-rank matrix estimation recently received a lot of attention due to challenging applications. A lot of work has been done on rank-penalized methods and convex relaxation, both on the theoretical and applied sides. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-27 Pierre Alquier

Low-rank tensor decompositions (TDs) provide an effective framework for multiway data analysis. Traditional TD methods rely on predefined structural assumptions, such as CP or Tucker decompositions. From a probabilistic perspective, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zhengyun Cheng , Changhao Wang , Guanwen Zhang , Yi Xu , Wei Zhou , Xiangyang Ji

In this paper we propose a general spectral theory for tensors. Our proposed factorization decomposes a tensor into a product of orthogonal and scaling tensors. At the same time, our factorization yields an expansion of a tensor as a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Edinah K. Gnang , Ahmed Elgammal , Vladimir Retakh

We propose a new tensor factorization method, called the Sparse Hierarchical-Tucker (Sparse H-Tucker), for sparse and high-order data tensors. Sparse H-Tucker is inspired by its namesake, the classical Hierarchical Tucker method, which aims…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Ioakeim Perros , Robert Chen , Richard Vuduc , Jimeng Sun

Sparse functional data frequently arise in real-world applications, posing significant challenges for accurate classification. To address this, we propose a novel classification method that integrates functional principal component analysis…

Computation · Statistics 2025-03-17 Ahmad Talafha