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We study distributed principal component analysis (PCA) in high-dimensional settings under the spiked model. In such regimes, sample eigenvectors can deviate significantly from population ones, introducing a persistent bias. Existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-29 Weiming Li , Zeng Li , Siyu Wang , Yanqing Yin , Junpeng Zhu

Sparse principal component analysis (sPCA) has become one of the most widely used techniques for dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional datasets. The main challenge underlying sPCA is to estimate the first vector of loadings of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-01 Jana Janková , Sara van de Geer

Based on a new atomic norm, we propose a new convex formulation for sparse matrix factorization problems in which the number of nonzero elements of the factors is assumed fixed and known. The formulation counts sparse PCA with multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-05 Emile Richard , Guillaume Obozinski , Jean-Philippe Vert

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

A general framework for principal component analysis (PCA) in the presence of heteroskedastic noise is introduced. We propose an algorithm called HeteroPCA, which involves iteratively imputing the diagonal entries of the sample covariance…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Anru R. Zhang , T. Tony Cai , Yihong Wu

This paper considers the sparse eigenvalue problem, which is to extract dominant (largest) sparse eigenvectors with at most $k$ non-zero components. We propose a simple yet effective solution called truncated power method that can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-13 Xiao-Tong Yuan , Tong Zhang

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

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 components analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique with an extensive range of applications. In this paper, an online distributed algorithm is proposed for recovering the principal eigenspaces. We further…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-20 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , George Michailidis

We study how well one can recover sparse principal components of a data matrix using a sketch formed from a few of its elements. We show that for a wide class of optimization problems, if the sketch is close (in the spectral norm) to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Abhisek Kundu , Petros Drineas , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Principal component analysis (PCA) is traditionally implemented through a covariance or kernel matrix, leading-eigenvector extraction, and hard rank-$k$ projection. These steps can be computationally costly in high-dimensional and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yewei Yuan , Michele Minervini , Mark M. Wilde , Nana Liu

We propose a novel sparse sliced inverse regression method based on random projections in a large $p$ small $n$ setting. Embedded in a generalized eigenvalue framework, the proposed approach finally reduces to parallel execution of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-04 Jia Zhang , Runxiong Wu , Xin Chen

We present novel analysis and algorithms for solving sparse phase retrieval and sparse principal component analysis (PCA) with convex lifted matrix formulations. The key innovation is a new mixed atomic matrix norm that, when used as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Andrew D. McRae , Justin Romberg , Mark A. Davenport

We study the dynamics of an online algorithm for learning a sparse leading eigenvector from samples generated from a spiked covariance model. This algorithm combines the classical Oja's method for online PCA with an element-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Chuang Wang , Yue M. Lu

We provide a new robust convergence analysis of the well-known power method for computing the dominant singular vectors of a matrix that we call the noisy power method. Our result characterizes the convergence behavior of the algorithm when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Moritz Hardt , Eric Price

Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for dimension reduction and embedding of real data in social network analysis, information retrieval, and natural language processing, etc. In this work we propose a fast randomized PCA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Xu Feng , Yuyang Xie , Mingye Song , Wenjian Yu , Jie Tang

The CP decomposition for high dimensional non-orthogonal spiked tensors is an important problem with broad applications across many disciplines. However, previous works with theoretical guarantee typically assume restrictive incoherence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Yuefeng Han , Cun-Hui Zhang

We study robust PCA for the fully observed setting, which is about separating a low rank matrix $\boldsymbol{L}$ and a sparse matrix $\boldsymbol{S}$ from their sum $\boldsymbol{D}=\boldsymbol{L}+\boldsymbol{S}$. In this paper, a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 HanQin Cai , Jian-Feng Cai , Ke Wei

A wide range of problems in computational science and engineering require estimation of sparse eigenvectors for high dimensional systems. Here, we propose two variants of the Truncated Orthogonal Iteration to compute multiple leading…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Hexuan Liu , Aleksandr Aravkin

We propose a stable version of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the general framework of a separable Hilbert space. It consists in interpreting the projection on the first eigenvectors as a step function applied to the spectrum of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Ilaria Giulini