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This paper examines several applications of principal component analysis (PCA) to physical systems. The first of these demonstrates that the principal components in a basis of appropriate system variables can be employed to identify…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-24 David Yevick

Supervised No Free Lunch Theorems (NFLTs) are well studied, yet unsupervised NFLTs remain underexplored. For elliptical distributions, we prove that there exist two equally optimal, scientifically meaningful bump-hunting strategies that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-20 Tianhao Liu , Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón , J. Sunil Rao

Environmental health researchers often aim to identify sources/behaviors that give rise to potentially harmful exposures. We adapted principal component pursuit (PCP)-a robust technique for dimensionality reduction in computer vision and…

Principal components analysis has been used to reduce the dimensionality of datasets for a long time. In this paper, we will demonstrate that in mode detection the components of smallest variance, the pettiest components, are more…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-01 Tianhao Liu , Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón , J. Sunil Rao , Jean-Eudes Dazard

We propose a supervised principal component regression method for relating functional responses with high dimensional predictors. Unlike the conventional principal component analysis, the proposed method builds on a newly defined expected…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-17 Xinyi Zhang , Qiang Sun , Dehan Kong

Generalization of time series prediction remains an important open issue in machine learning, wherein earlier methods have either large generalization error or local minima. We develop an analytically solvable, unsupervised learning scheme…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-21 Takuya Isomura , Taro Toyoizumi

In this paper we analyze different ways of performing principal component analysis throughout three different approaches: robust covariance and correlation matrix estimation, projection pursuit approach and non-parametric maximum entropy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-04 María Camila Vásquez-Correa , Henry Laniado Rodas

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental data preprocessing tool in the world of machine learning. While PCA is often thought of as a dimensionality reduction method, the purpose of PCA is actually two-fold: dimension reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Arpita Gang , Waheed U. Bajwa

Principal component analysis (PCA) frequently suffers from the disturbance of outliers and thus a spectrum of robust extensions and variations of PCA have been developed. However, existing extensions of PCA treat all samples equally even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rui Zhang , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

We extend the principal component analysis (PCA) to second-order stationary vector time series in the sense that we seek for a contemporaneous linear transformation for a $p$-variate time series such that the transformed series is segmented…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-21 Jinyuan Chang , Bin Guo , Qiwei Yao

Principal component analysis (PCA) is commonly used in genetics to infer and visualize population structure and admixture between populations. PCA is often interpreted in a way similar to inferred admixture proportions, where it is assumed…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-10 Jan van Waaij , Song Li , Genís Garcia-Erill , Anders Albrechtsen , Carsten Wiuf

A new look on the principal component analysis has been presented. Firstly, a geometric interpretation of determination coefficient was shown. In turn, the ability to represent the analyzed data and their interdependencies in the form of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-29 Zenon Gniazdowski

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most popular dimension reduction techniques in statistics and is especially powerful when a multivariate distribution is concentrated near a lower-dimensional subspace. Multivariate extreme…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Felix Reinbott , Anja Janßen

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a well-known multivariate technique used to decorrelate a set of vectors. PCA has been extensively applied in the past to the classification of stellar and galaxy spectra. Here we apply PCA to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Ferreras , B. Rogers , O. Lahav , .

With the advent of very large redshift surveys of tens to hundreds of thousands of galaxies reliable techniques for automatically determining galaxy redshifts are becoming increasingly important. The most common technique currently in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Karl Glazebrook , Alison R. Offer , Kathryn Deeley

Model-independent analysis (MIA) methods are generally useful for analysing complex systems in which relationships between the observables are non-trivial and noise is present. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is one of MIA methods…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Y. I. Kim , S. T. Boogert , Y. Honda , A. Lyapin , H. Park , N. Terunuma , T. Tauchi , J. Urakawa

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a data dimensionality reduction technique well-suited for processing data from sensor networks. It can be applied to tasks like compression, event detection, and event recognition. This technique is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-13 Yann-Aël Le Borgne , Sylvain Raybaud , Gianluca Bontempi

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence techniques have proved to be very successful when applied to problems in physical sciences. Here we apply an unsupervised Machine Learning (ML) algorithm called Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 T. Tula , G. Möller , J. Quintanilla , S. R. Giblin , A. D. Hillier , E. E. McCabe , S. Ramos , D. S. Barker , S. Gibson

Different techniques, used to optimise on-line principal component analysis, are investigated by methods of statistical mechanics. These include local and global optimisation of node-dependent learning-rates which are shown to be very…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 E Schloesser , D Saad , M Biehl

Dimension reduction is often the first step in statistical modeling or prediction of multivariate spatial data. However, most existing dimension reduction techniques do not account for the spatial correlation between observations and do not…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-27 Si Cheng , Magali N. Blanco , Timothy V. Larson , Lianne Sheppard , Adam Szpiro , Ali Shojaie