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Non-Gaussian component analysis (NGCA) is a problem in multidimensional data analysis which, since its formulation in 2006, has attracted considerable attention in statistics and machine learning. In this problem, we have a random variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Navin Goyal , Abhishek Shetty

Non-gaussian component analysis (NGCA) introduced in offered a method for high dimensional data analysis allowing for identifying a low-dimensional non-Gaussian component of the whole distribution in an iterative and structure adaptive way.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Elmar Diederichs , Anatoli Juditsky , Vladimir Spokoiny , Christof Schuette

Non-Gaussian component analysis (NGCA) is aimed at identifying a linear subspace such that the projected data follows a non-Gaussian distribution. In this paper, we propose a novel NGCA algorithm based on log-density gradient estimation.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-29 Hiroaki Sasaki , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Non-Gaussian Component Analysis (NGCA) is the following distribution learning problem: Given i.i.d. samples from a distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ that is non-gaussian in a hidden direction $v$ and an independent standard Gaussian in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

Non-Gaussian Component Analysis (NGCA) is the statistical task of finding a non-Gaussian direction in a high-dimensional dataset. Specifically, given i.i.d.\ samples from a distribution $P^A_{v}$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ that behaves like a known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ilias Diakonikolas , Sushrut Karmalkar , Shuo Pang , Aaron Potechin

Non-Gaussian component analysis (NGCA) is an unsupervised linear dimension reduction method that extracts low-dimensional non-Gaussian "signals" from high-dimensional data contaminated with Gaussian noise. NGCA can be regarded as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-25 Hiroaki Shiino , Hiroaki Sasaki , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Sparse non-Gaussian component analysis (SNGCA) is an unsupervised method of extracting a linear structure from a high dimensional data based on estimating a low-dimensional non-Gaussian data component. In this paper we discuss a new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Elmar Diederichs , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski , Vladimir Spokoiny

Probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) seeks a low dimensional representation of a data set in the presence of independent spherical Gaussian noise. The maximum likelihood solution for the model is an eigenvalue problem on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Alfredo Kalaitzis , Neil Lawrence

We develop two methods for the following fundamental statistical task: given an $\epsilon$-corrupted set of $n$ samples from a $d$-dimensional sub-Gaussian distribution, return an approximate top eigenvector of the covariance matrix. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Arun Jambulapati , Jerry Li , Kevin Tian

This paper presents an algebro-geometric solution to the problem of segmenting an unknown number of subspaces of unknown and varying dimensions from sample data points. We represent the subspaces with a set of homogeneous polynomials whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Rene Vidal , Yi Ma , Shankar Sastry

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used dimension reduction and multivariate statistical techniques. From a probabilistic perspective, PCA seeks a low-dimensional representation of data in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Chihao Zhang , Kuo Gai , Shihua Zhang

We study the complexity of Non-Gaussian Component Analysis (NGCA) in the Statistical Query (SQ) model. Prior work developed a general methodology to prove SQ lower bounds for this task that have been applicable to a wide range of contexts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel Kane , Lisheng Ren , Yuxin Sun

Despite the rapid development of computational hardware, the treatment of large and high dimensional data sets is still a challenging problem. This paper provides a twofold contribution to the topic. First, we propose a Gaussian Mixture…

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

Probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) seeks a low dimensional representation of a data set in the presence of independent spherical Gaussian noise, Sigma = (sigma^2)*I. The maximum likelihood solution for the model is an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-23 Alfredo A. Kalaitzis , Neil D. Lawrence

This work studies information-computation gaps for statistical problems. A common approach for providing evidence of such gaps is to show sample complexity lower bounds (that are stronger than the information-theoretic optimum) against…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Sihan Liu , Thanasis Pittas

Dimensionality reduction is critical across various domains of science including neuroscience. Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PPCA) is a prominent dimensionality reduction method that provides a probabilistic approach unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Han-Lin Hsieh , Maryam M. Shanechi

Independent component analysis (ICA) is popular in many applications, including cognitive neuroscience and signal processing. Due to computational constraints, principal component analysis is used for dimension reduction prior to ICA…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-03 Benjamin B. Risk , David S. Matteson , David Ruppert

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a method for estimating a subspace given noisy samples. It is useful in a variety of problems ranging from dimensionality reduction to anomaly detection and the visualization of high dimensional data.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 David Hong , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We analyze a practical algorithm for sparse PCA on incomplete and noisy data under a general non-random sampling scheme. The algorithm is based on a semidefinite relaxation of the $\ell_1$-regularized PCA problem. We provide theoretical…

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