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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

A first proposal of a sparse and cellwise robust PCA method is presented. Robustness to single outlying cells in the data matrix is achieved by substituting the squared loss function for the approximation error by a robust version. The…

Computation · Statistics 2024-08-29 Pia Pfeiffer , Laura Vana-Gür , Peter Filzmoser

Real-time or near real-time hyperspectral detection and identification are extremely useful and needed in many fields. These data sets can be quite large, and the algorithms can require numerous computations that slow the process down. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Abigail Basener , Meagan Herald

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used unsupervised dimensionality reduction technique in machine learning, applied across various fields such as bioinformatics, computer vision and finance. However, when the response variables…

Applications · Statistics 2025-06-25 Theodosios Papazoglou , Guosheng Yin

We study the tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA) problem, a tensorial extension of matrix robust principal component analysis (RPCA), that aims to split the given tensor into an underlying low-rank component and a sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 HanQin Cai , Zehan Chao , Longxiu Huang , Deanna Needell

The performance of principal component analysis (PCA) suffers badly in the presence of outliers. This paper proposes two novel approaches for robust PCA based on semidefinite programming. The first method, maximum mean absolute deviation…

Computation · Statistics 2014-01-13 Michael McCoy , Joel Tropp

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical method for dimensionality reduction based on extracting the dominant eigenvectors of the sample covariance matrix. However, PCA is well known to behave poorly in the ``large $p$, small $n$''…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Arash A. Amini , Martin J. Wainwright

Principal components analysis (PCA) is the optimal linear auto-encoder of data, and it is often used to construct features. Enforcing sparsity on the principal components can promote better generalization, while improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Malik Magdon-Ismail , Christos Boutsidis

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) finds the best linear representation of data, and is an indispensable tool in many learning and inference tasks. Classically, principal components of a dataset are interpreted as the directions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Raphael A. Hauser , Armin Eftekhari

Robust PCA, the problem of PCA in the presence of outliers has been extensively investigated in the last few years. Here we focus on Robust PCA in the outlier model where each column of the data matrix is either an inlier or an outlier.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-01 Vishnu Menon , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper delivers improved theoretical guarantees for the convex programming approach in low-rank matrix estimation, in the presence of (1) random noise, (2) gross sparse outliers, and (3) missing data. This problem, often dubbed as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-13 Yuxin Chen , Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma , Yuling Yan

We present a new technique called contrastive principal component analysis (cPCA) that is designed to discover low-dimensional structure that is unique to a dataset, or enriched in one dataset relative to other data. The technique is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-23 Abubakar Abid , Martin J. Zhang , Vivek K. Bagaria , James Zou

We present an algorithm for L1-norm kernel PCA and provide a convergence analysis for it. While an optimal solution of L2-norm kernel PCA can be obtained through matrix decomposition, finding that of L1-norm kernel PCA is not trivial due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-12 Cheolmin Kim , Diego Klabjan

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most fundamental tools in machine learning with broad use as a dimensionality reduction and denoising tool. In the later setting, while PCA is known to be effective at subspace recovery and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Nikhil Doerkar , Jiapeng Zhang

We develop machinery to design efficiently computable and consistent estimators, achieving estimation error approaching zero as the number of observations grows, when facing an oblivious adversary that may corrupt responses in all but an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Tommaso d'Orsi , Chih-Hung Liu , Rajai Nasser , Gleb Novikov , David Steurer , Stefan Tiegel

Principal component analysis (PCA) aims at estimating the direction of maximal variability of a high-dimensional dataset. A natural question is: does this task become easier, and estimation more accurate, when we exploit additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Andrea Montanari , Emile Richard

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a ubiquitous tool with many applications in machine learning including feature construction, subspace embedding, and outlier detection. In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing the top…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Nikos Karampatziakis , Paul Mineiro

In this paper, Kernel PCA is reinterpreted as the solution to a convex optimization problem. Actually, there is a constrained convex problem for each principal component, so that the constraints guarantee that the principal component is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Carlos M. Alaíz , Michaël Fanuel , Johan A. K. Suykens

Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combination. This is known as sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Youwei Zhang , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

We study the problem of tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA), which aims to separate an underlying low-multilinear-rank tensor and a sparse outlier tensor from their sum. In this work, we propose a fast non-convex algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 HanQin Cai , Zehan Chao , Longxiu Huang , Deanna Needell