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In this paper, we study the application of sparse principal component analysis (PCA) to clustering and feature selection problems. Sparse PCA seeks sparse factors, or linear combinations of the data variables, explaining a maximum amount of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Ronny Luss , Alexandre d'Aspremont

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

Sparsity is a fundamental modeling principle in statistics, signal processing, and data science. However, optimization with sparsity constraints is notoriously difficult. We introduce a new convex relaxation framework for {sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Diego Cifuentes , Zhuorui Li

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-12-24 W. Liu , H. Zhang , D. Tao , Y. Wang , K. Lu

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

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

Principal component analysis (PCA) has been widely used in analyzing high-dimensional data. It converts a set of observed data points of possibly correlated variables into a set of linearly uncorrelated variables via an orthogonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Xin Liang , Zhen-Chen Guo , Li Wang , Ren-Cang Li , Wen-Wei Lin

We study Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in a setting where a part of the corrupting noise is data-dependent and, as a result, the noise and the true data are correlated. Under a bounded-ness assumption on the true data and the noise,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Namrata Vaswani , Praneeth Narayanamurthy

This paper establishes a statistical versus computational trade-off for solving a basic high-dimensional machine learning problem via a basic convex relaxation method. Specifically, we consider the {\em Sparse Principal Component Analysis}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Tengyu Ma , Avi Wigderson

We study efficient algorithms for Sparse PCA in standard statistical models (spiked covariance in its Wishart form). Our goal is to achieve optimal recovery guarantees while being resilient to small perturbations. Despite a long history of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Tommaso d'Orsi , Pravesh K. Kothari , Gleb Novikov , David Steurer

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for identifying good low-dimensional approximations to data in high dimension. Many data sets of interest contain private or sensitive information about individuals. Algorithms which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Anand D. Sarwate , Kaushik Sinha

We develop a new principal components analysis (PCA) type dimension reduction method for binary data. Different from the standard PCA which is defined on the observed data, the proposed PCA is defined on the logit transform of the success…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-17 Seokho Lee , Jianhua Z. Huang , Jianhua Hu

We consider the problem of maximizing the variance explained from a data matrix using orthogonal sparse principal components that have a support of fixed cardinality. While most existing methods focus on building principal components (PCs)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Driss Lahlou Kitane

Sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA) aims at finding a sparse basis to improve the interpretability over the dense basis of PCA, meanwhile the sparse basis should cover the data subspace as much as possible. In contrast to most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Zhenfang Hu , Gang Pan , Yueming Wang , Zhaohui Wu

The low-rank matrix approximation problem with respect to the component-wise $\ell_1$-norm ($\ell_1$-LRA), which is closely related to robust principal component analysis (PCA), has become a very popular tool in data mining and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Nicolas Gillis , Stephen A. Vavasis

This paper studies the principal component (PC) method-based estimation of weak factor models with sparse loadings. We uncover an intrinsic near-sparsity preservation property for the PC estimators of loadings, which comes from the…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-11-08 Jie Wei , Yonghui Zhang

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

Given a redundant dictionary $\Phi$, represented by an $M \times N$ matrix ($\Phi \in \mathbb{R}^{M \times N}$) and a target signal $y \in \mathbb{R}^M$, the \emph{sparse approximation problem} asks to find an approximate representation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Ali Civril

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

Estimating the leading principal components of data, assuming they are sparse, is a central task in modern high-dimensional statistics. Many algorithms were developed for this sparse PCA problem, from simple diagonal thresholding to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Robert Krauthgamer , Boaz Nadler , Dan Vilenchik