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This paper proposes a probabilistic model of subspaces based on the probabilistic principal component analysis (PCA). Given a sample of vectors in the embedding space -- commonly known as a snapshot matrix -- this method uses quantities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Akash Yadav , Ruda Zhang

Classical machine learning algorithms often face scalability bottlenecks when they are applied to large-scale data. Such algorithms were designed to work with small data that is assumed to fit in the memory of one machine. In this report,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Tarek Elgamal , Mohamed Hefeeda

Neural learning rules for principal component / subspace analysis (PCA / PSA) can be derived by maximizing an objective function (summed variance of the projection on the subspace axes) under an orthonormality constraint. For a subspace…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Ralf Möller

Spectral methods have been the mainstay in several domains such as machine learning and scientific computing. They involve finding a certain kind of spectral decomposition to obtain basis functions that can capture important structures for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Majid Janzamin , Rong Ge , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar

Recovering linear subspaces from data is a fundamental and important task in statistics and machine learning. Motivated by heterogeneity in Federated Learning settings, we study a basic formulation of this problem: the principal component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 John Duchi , Vitaly Feldman , Lunjia Hu , Kunal Talwar

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used unsupervised dimensionality reduction technique in machine learning, applied across various fields such as bioinformatics, computer vision and finance. However, when the response variables…

Applications · Statistics 2025-06-25 Theodosios Papazoglou , Guosheng Yin

We study the distributed computing setting in which there are multiple servers, each holding a set of points, who wish to compute functions on the union of their point sets. A key task in this setting is Principal Component Analysis (PCA),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Maria-Florina Balcan , Vandana Kanchanapally , Yingyu Liang , David Woodruff

Principal components analysis (PCA) is the optimal linear auto-encoder of data, and it is often used to construct features. Enforcing sparsity on the principal components can promote better generalization, while improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Malik Magdon-Ismail , Christos Boutsidis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly used statistical procedures with a wide range of applications. This paper considers both minimax and adaptive estimation of the principal subspace in the high dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-08 T. Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

Principal component analysis (PCA) is fundamental to statistical machine learning. It extracts latent principal factors that contribute to the most variation of the data. When data are stored across multiple machines, however, communication…

Computation · Statistics 2018-01-11 Jianqing Fan , Dong Wang , Kaizheng Wang , Ziwei Zhu

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

We study computational-statistical gaps for improper learning in sparse linear regression. More specifically, given $n$ samples from a $k$-sparse linear model in dimension $d$, we ask what is the minimum sample complexity to efficiently (in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Rares-Darius Buhai , Jingqiu Ding , Stefan Tiegel

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical dimension reduction method which projects data onto the principal subspace spanned by the leading eigenvectors of the covariance matrix. However, it behaves poorly when the number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Zongming Ma

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

Understanding feature representation for deep neural networks (DNNs) remains an open question within the general field of explainable AI. We use principal component analysis (PCA) to study the performance of a k-nearest neighbors classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Amit Harlev , Andrew Engel , Panos Stinis , Tony Chiang

Localizing more sources than sensors with a sparse linear array (SLA) has long relied on minimizing a distance between two covariance matrices and recent algorithms often utilize semidefinite programming (SDP). Although deep neural network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Kuan-Lin Chen , Bhaskar D. Rao

This paper explores and analyzes two randomized designs for robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) employing low-dimensional data sketching. In one design, a data sketch is constructed using random column sampling followed by low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-21 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

Covariance matrix estimation and principal component analysis (PCA) are two cornerstones of multivariate analysis. Classic textbook solutions perform poorly when the dimension of the data is of a magnitude similar to the sample size, or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Olivier Ledoit , Michael Wolf

PCA is one of the most widely used dimension reduction techniques. A related easier problem is "subspace learning" or "subspace estimation". Given relatively clean data, both are easily solved via singular value decomposition (SVD). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Namrata Vaswani , Thierry Bouwmans , Sajid Javed , Praneeth Narayanamurthy

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for representation learning, but its global linear formulation fails to capture the structure of data supported on curved manifolds. In contrast, manifold learning methods model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Alexandre L. M. Levada
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