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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most common nonparametric method for estimating the volatility structure of Gaussian interest rate models. One major difficulty in the estimation of these models is the fact that forward rate curves…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-08-28 Marcio Laurini , Alberto Ohashi

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a popular method for dimension reduction and has attracted an unfailing interest for decades. More recently, kernel PCA (KPCA) has emerged as an extension of PCA but, despite its use in practice, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Maxime Haddouche , Benjamin Guedj , John Shawe-Taylor

In 2019, Yoshida et al. introduced a notion of tropical principal component analysis (PCA). The output is a tropical polytope with a fixed number of vertices that best fits the data. We here apply tropical PCA to dimension reduction and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Robert Page , Leon Zhang , Ruriko Yoshida

We introduce a class of copulas that we call Principal Component Copulas (PCCs). This class combines the strong points of copula-based techniques with principal component analysis (PCA), which results in flexibility when modelling tail…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-09 K. B. Gubbels , J. Y. Ypma , C. W. Oosterlee

We introduce a novel visual tokenization framework that embeds a provable PCA-like structure into the latent token space. While existing visual tokenizers primarily optimize for reconstruction fidelity, they often neglect the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng , Xiaojuan Qi

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a powerful and popular dimensionality reduction technique. However, due to its linear nature, it often fails to capture the complex underlying structure of real-world data. While Kernel PCA (kPCA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Thomas Uriot , Elise Chung

Principal component analysis (PCA) algorithms use neural networks to extract the eigenvectors of the correlation matrix from the data. However, if the process is non-Gaussian, PCA algorithms or their higher order generalisations provide…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Joaquim A. Dente , R. Vilela Mendes

In recent times, functional data analysis (FDA) has been successfully applied in the field of high dimensional data classification. In this paper, we present a novel classification framework using functional data and classwise Principal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-29 Avishek Chatterjee , Satyaki Mazumder , Koel Das

The first order behavior of multivariate heavy-tailed random vectors above large radial thresholds is ruled by a limit measure in a regular variation framework. For a high dimensional vector, a reasonable assumption is that the support of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Holger Drees , Anne Sabourin

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical feature extraction method, but it may be adversely affected by outliers, resulting in inaccurate learning of the projection matrix. This paper proposes a robust method to estimate both the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yingzhuo Deng , Ke Hu , Bo Li , Yao Zhang

The principal component analysis (PCA), a mathematical tool commonly used in statistics, has recently been employed to interpret the $p_T$-dependent fluctuations of harmonic flow $v_n$ in terms of leading and subleading flow modes in heavy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 Ziming Liu , Arabinda Behera , Huichao Song , Jiangyong Jia

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the workhorse tool for dimensionality reduction in this era of big data. While often overlooked, the purpose of PCA is not only to reduce data dimensionality, but also to yield features that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Arpita Gang , Waheed U. Bajwa

Efficient representations of data are essential for processing, exploration, and human understanding, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most common dimensionality reduction techniques used for the analysis of large,…

Computation · Statistics 2023-11-06 Olga Dorabiala , Aleksandr Aravkin , J. Nathan Kutz

Principal component analysis is a ubiquitous tool in exploratory data analysis. It is widely used by applied scientists for visualization and interpretability purposes. We raise an important issue (the curse of isotropy) about the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Tom Szwagier , Xavier Pennec

Classical methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) are ubiquitous in statistics. However, these techniques are only able to reveal linear relationships in data. Although nonlinear variants…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-14 David Lopez-Paz , Suvrit Sra , Alex Smola , Zoubin Ghahramani , Bernhard Schölkopf

We consider the problem of decomposing a large covariance matrix into the sum of a low-rank matrix and a diagonally dominant matrix, and we call this problem the "Diagonally-Dominant Principal Component Analysis (DD-PCA)". DD-PCA is an…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-04 Zheng Tracy Ke , Lingzhou Xue , Fan Yang

Most biological data are multidimensional, posing a major challenge to human comprehension and computational analysis. Principal component analysis is the most popular approach to rendering two- or three-dimensional representations of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-13 Tom M. W. Nye , Xiaoxian Tang , Grady Weyenberg , Ruriko Yoshida

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a cardinal technique for obtaining combinations of features, or principal components (PCs), that explain the variance of high-dimensional datasets in an interpretable manner. This involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

Methods for analysis of principal components in discrete data have existed for some time under various names such as grade of membership modelling, probabilistic latent semantic analysis, and genotype inference with admixture. In this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Wray L. Buntine , Aleks Jakulin

In this paper we analyze approximate methods for undertaking a principal components analysis (PCA) on large data sets. PCA is a classical dimension reduction method that involves the projection of the data onto the subspace spanned by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-16 Darren Homrighausen , Daniel J. McDonald