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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimension reduction technique. It produces inconsistent estimators when the dimensionality is moderate to high, which is often the problem in modern large-scale applications where algorithm…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-29 Qiaoya Zhang , Yiyuan She

Principal component analysis (PCA) has been widely applied to dimensionality reduction and data pre-processing for different applications in engineering, biology and social science. Classical PCA and its variants seek for linear projections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Yi Yang , Heng Huang

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a widely utilized technique for dimensionality reduction; however, its inherent lack of interpretability-stemming from dense linear combinations of all feature-limits its applicability in many domains.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Loc Hoang Tran

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA), an important variant of PCA, attempts to find sparse loading vectors when conducting dimension reduction. This paper considers the nonsmooth Riemannian optimization problem associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Wen Huang , Ke Wei

The problem of approximating a dense matrix by a product of sparse factors is a fundamental problem for many signal processing and machine learning tasks. It can be decomposed into two subproblems: finding the position of the non-zero…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Quoc-Tung Le , Elisa Riccietti , Rémi Gribonval

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) and sparse canonical correlation analysis (CCA) are two essential techniques from high-dimensional statistics and machine learning for analyzing large-scale data. Both problems can be formulated as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-28 Shixiang Chen , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue , Hui Zou

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) aims at mapping large dimensional data to a linear subspace of lower dimension. By imposing loading vectors to be sparse, it performs the double duty of dimension reduction and variable selection.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Jasin Machkour , Arnaud Breloy , Michael Muma , Daniel P. Palomar , Frédéric Pascal

We consider the product knapsack problem, which is the variant of the classical 0-1 knapsack problem where the objective consists of maximizing the product of the profits of the selected items. These profits are allowed to be positive or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer , Clemens Thielen

Deep neural networks perform remarkably well on image classification tasks but remain vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. This work revisits linear dimensionality reduction as a simple, data-adapted defense. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Killian Steunou , Théo Druilhe , Sigurd Saue

Sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA) is a widely used technique for dimensionality reduction in multivariate analysis, addressing two key limitations of standard PCA. First, sparse PCA can be implemented in high-dimensional low…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Jan O. Bauer

We discuss a clustering method for Gaussian mixture model based on the sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) method and compare it with the IF-PCA method. We also discuss the dependent case where the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ is not…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-18 T. Tony Cai , Linjun Zhang

Previous versions of sparse principal component analysis (PCA) have presumed that the eigen-basis (a $p \times k$ matrix) is approximately sparse. We propose a method that presumes the $p \times k$ matrix becomes approximately sparse after…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Fan Chen , Karl Rohe

The topic of this tutorial is Least Squares Sparse Principal Components Analysis (LS SPCA) which is a simple method for computing approximated Principal Components which are combinations of only a few of the observed variables. Analogously…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-31 Giovanni Maria Merola

The classical Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) identifies the correlations between two sets of multivariate variables based on their covariance, which has been widely applied in diverse fields such as computer vision, natural language…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Yongchun Li , Santanu S. Dey , Weijun Xie

Sparse PCA is one of the most well-studied problems in high-dimensional statistics. In this problem, we are given samples from a distribution with covariance $\Sigma$, whose top eigenvector $v \in R^d$ is $s$-sparse. Existing sparse PCA…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Syamantak Kumar , Purnamrita Sarkar , Kevin Tian , Peiyuan Zhang

Commonly used in computer vision and other applications, robust PCA represents an algorithmic attempt to reduce the sensitivity of classical PCA to outliers. The basic idea is to learn a decomposition of some data matrix of interest into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Tae-Hyun Oh , Yasuyuki Matsushita , In So Kweon , David Wipf

Finding sparse vectors is a fundamental problem that arises in several contexts including codes, subspaces, and lattices. In this work, we prove strong inapproximability results for all these variants using a novel approach that even…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Xuandi Ren

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) is an important technique for high-dimensional data analysis, improving interpretability by imposing sparsity on principal components. However, existing methods often fail to simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Difei Cheng , Qiao Hu

In this paper we develop a new approach to sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA). We propose two single-unit and two block optimization formulations of the sparse PCA problem, aimed at extracting a single sparse dominant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Michel Journée , Yurii Nesterov , Peter Richtárik , Rodolphe Sepulchre

In subset selection we search for the best linear predictor that involves a small subset of variables. From a computational complexity viewpoint, subset selection is NP-hard and few classes are known to be solvable in polynomial time. Using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Alberto Del Pia , Santanu S. Dey , Robert Weismantel