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In many atmospheric and earth sciences, it is of interest to identify dominant spatial patterns of variation based on data observed at $p$ locations and $n$ time points with the possibility that $p>n$. While principal component analysis…

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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

The high-dimensional feature space of the hyperspectral imagery poses major challenges to the processing and analysis of the hyperspectral data sets. In such a case, dimensionality reduction is necessary to decrease the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Mustafa Ustuner

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most used tools for extracting low-dimensional representations of data, in particular for time series. Performances are known to strongly depend on the quality (amount of noise) and the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-12-16 Mariia Legenkaia , Laurent Bourdieu , Rémi Monasson

A computational approach by an implementation of the Principle Component Analysis (PCA) with K-means and Gaussian Mixture (GM) clustering methods from Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to identify structural and dynamical heterogeneities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Viet Nguyen , Xueyu Song

Quantifying local structures in self-assembled systems is a central challenge in soft matter and materials science. When no a priori knowledge of the relevant structures is available, traditional order parameters often fall short.…

Unified representation learning for multi-source data integration faces two important challenges: blockwise missingness and blockwise signal heterogeneity. The former arises from sources observing different, yet potentially overlapping,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-13 Ziqi Liu , Ye Tian , Weijing Tang

We present a method for performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on noisy datasets with missing values. Estimates of the measurement error are used to weight the input data such that compared to classic PCA, the resulting eigenvectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen Bailey

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a foundational tool in modern data analysis, and a crucial step in PCA is selecting the number of components to keep. However, classical selection methods (e.g., scree plots, parallel analysis, etc.)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-28 David Hong , Yue Sheng , Edgar Dobriban

In this paper, we tackle a significant challenge in PCA: heterogeneity. When data are collected from different sources with heterogeneous trends while still sharing some congruency, it is critical to extract shared knowledge while retaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Naichen Shi , Raed Al Kontar

In material research, structural characterization often requires multiple complementary techniques to obtain a holistic morphological view of the synthesized material. Depending on the availability of and accessibility of the different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-29 Shizhao Lu , Arthi Jayaraman

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a well known procedure to reduce intrinsic complexity of a dataset, essentially through simplifying the covariance structure or the correlation structure. We introduce a novel algebraic, model-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-09 Martin Schlather , Felix Reinbott

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical dimension reduction method which projects data onto the principal subspace spanned by the leading eigenvectors of the covariance matrix. However, it behaves poorly when the number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Zongming Ma

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-established dimensionality reduction technique that is often used for unsupervised feature selection (UFS). However, determining the regularization parameters is rather challenging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Long Chen , Xianchao Xiu

Despite the advances of deep learning in specific tasks using images, the principled assessment of image fidelity and similarity is still a critical ability to develop. As it has been shown that Mean Squared Error (MSE) is insufficient for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Benyamin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Single-cell RNA-seq provides detailed molecular snapshots of individual cells but is notoriously noisy. Variability stems from biological differences and technical factors, such as amplification bias and limited RNA capture efficiency,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Victor Chardès

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimensionality reduction technique for obtaining principal components which are linear combinations of a small subset of the original features. Existing approaches cannot supply…

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Capturing patterns of variation present in a dataset is important in exploratory data analysis and unsupervised learning. Contrastive dimension reduction methods, such as contrastive principal component analysis (cPCA), find patterns unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Robin Tu , Alexander H. Foss , Sihai D. Zhao

The development of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) has opened numerous opportunities to probe atomic structure and ultrafast dynamics of various materials. Single Particle Imaging (SPI) with XFELs enables the investigation of biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhantao Chen , Cong Wang , Mingye Gao , Chun Hong Yoon , Jana B. Thayer , Joshua J. Turner

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a novel, unconventional method that goes beyond the notion of traditional cameras but can be computationally expensive and slow for real-time applications. Deep learning has been proposed as an alternative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Ritz Ann Aguilar , Damian Dailisan