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Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a prevalent tool across a plethora of subfields of applied statistics. While several results have characterized the recovery error of the principal eigenvectors, these are typically in spectral…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Joshua Agterberg , Jeremias Sulam

Sparse PCA is the optimization problem obtained from PCA by adding a sparsity constraint on the principal components. Sparse PCA is NP-hard and hard to approximate even in the single-component case. In this paper we settle the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Alberto Del Pia

In the past decade, sparse principal component analysis has emerged as an archetypal problem for illustrating statistical-computational tradeoffs. This trend has largely been driven by a line of research aiming to characterize the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler

In this work, we revisit algorithms for Tensor PCA: given an order-$r$ tensor of the form $T = G+\lambda \cdot v^{\otimes r}$ where $G$ is a random symmetric Gaussian tensor with unit variance entries and $v$ is an unknown boolean vector in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Pravesh K. Kothari , Jeff Xu

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

Singular value decomposition (SVD) based principal component analysis (PCA) breaks down in the high-dimensional and limited sample size regime below a certain critical eigen-SNR that depends on the dimensionality of the system and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Arvind Prasadan , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Debashis Paul

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

We consider the following multi-component sparse PCA problem: given a set of data points, we seek to extract a small number of sparse components with disjoint supports that jointly capture the maximum possible variance. These components can…

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique wherein one seeks a low-rank representation of a data matrix with additional sparsity constraints on the obtained representation. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

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

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix (the principal components) from a high-dimensional data matrix despite both small entry-wise noise and gross sparse errors. Recently, it has been shown that a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Zihan Zhou , Xiaodong Li , John Wright , Emmanuel Candes , Yi Ma

This work studies the recursive robust principal components analysis (PCA) problem. If the outlier is the signal-of-interest, this problem can be interpreted as one of recursively recovering a time sequence of sparse vectors, $S_t$, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Chenlu Qiu , Namrata Vaswani , Brian Lois , Leslie Hogben

This paper studies the Tensor Robust Principal Component (TRPCA) problem which extends the known Robust PCA (Candes et al. 2011) to the tensor case. Our model is based on a new tensor Singular Value Decomposition (t-SVD) (Kilmer and Martin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Canyi Lu , Jiashi Feng , Yudong Chen , Wei Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Shuicheng Yan

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 recovering Gaussian data under adversarial corruptions when the noises are low-rank and the corruptions are on the coordinate level. Concretely, we assume that the Gaussian noises lie in an unknown $k$-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Weihao Kong , Mingda Qiao , Rajat Sen

We propose an efficient algorithm for tensor PCA based on counting a specific family of weighted hypergraphs. For the order-$p$ tensor PCA problem where $p \geq 3$ is a fixed integer, we show that when the signal-to-noise ratio is $\lambda…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Zhangsong Li

In probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA), an observed vector is modeled as a linear transformation of a low-dimensional Gaussian factor plus isotropic noise. We generalize PPCA to tensors by constraining the loading operator to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Yaoming Zhen , Piotr Zwiernik

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the high-dimensional setting with missing observations. Our goal is to estimate the first principal component when we only have access to partial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Karim Lounici

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

This paper is concerned with the computation of the principal components for a general tensor, known as the tensor principal component analysis (PCA) problem. We show that the general tensor PCA problem is reducible to its special case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Bo Jiang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang