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Functional Principal Components Analysis (FPCA) is a widely used analytic tool for dimension reduction of functional data. Traditional implementations of FPCA estimate the principal components from the data, then treat these estimates as…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Joseph Sartini , Xinkai Zhou , Liz Selvin , Scott Zeger , Ciprian Crainiceanu

High-dimensional image data often require dimensionality reduction before further analysis. This paper provides a purely analytical comparison of two linear techniques-Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Singular Value Decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Michael Gyimadu , Gregory Bell , Ph. D

Principal component analysis (PCA) frequently suffers from the disturbance of outliers and thus a spectrum of robust extensions and variations of PCA have been developed. However, existing extensions of PCA treat all samples equally even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rui Zhang , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

We extend the principal component analysis (PCA) to second-order stationary vector time series in the sense that we seek for a contemporaneous linear transformation for a $p$-variate time series such that the transformed series is segmented…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-21 Jinyuan Chang , Bin Guo , Qiwei Yao

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and K-means constitute fundamental techniques in multivariate analysis. Although they are frequently applied independently or sequentially to cluster observations, the relationship between them, especially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Victor Saquicela , Kenneth Palacio-Baus , Mario Chifla

Principal component analysis is considered as an addition to the well-tested parametrization w(a)=w_0+w_a(1-a) for the dark energy equation of state. This brief note cautions against some unjustified assumptions in interpretation of PCA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-11 Roland de Putter , Eric V. Linder

We demonstrate the use of a variant of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for discrimination problems in astronomy. This variant of PCA is shown to provide the best linear discrimination between data classes. As a test case, we present the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rodrigo Ibata , Michael Irwin

Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is a common way to study the sources of variation in a high-dimensional data set. Typically, the leading principal components are used to understand the variation in the data or to reduce the dimension of…

A comparison of results from principal component analysis and support vector machine calculations is made for a variety of phase transitions in two-dimensional classical spin models.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-21 R. M. Woloshyn

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-established method commonly used to explore and visualise data. A classical PCA model is the fixed effect model where data are generated as a fixed structure of low rank corrupted by noise. Under…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-13 Marie Verbanck , Julie Josse , François Husson

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a widely used method in various applications of signal processing and feature extraction. It extends principal component analysis (PCA) and can extract important and complicated components with small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yoshitatsu Matsuda , Kazunori Yamaguch

A principal component analysis (PCA) of clean microcalorimeter pulse records can be a first step beyond statistically optimal linear filtering of pulses towards a fully non-linear analysis. For PCA to be practical on spectrometers with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-01-08 J. W. Fowler , B. K. Alpert , Y. -I. Joe , G. C. O'Neil , D. S. Swetz , J. N. Ullom

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

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

We present quasicyclic principal component analysis (QPCA), a generalization of principal component analysis (PCA), that determines an optimized basis for a dataset in terms of families of shift-orthogonal principal vectors. This is of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Susanna E. Rumsey , Stark C. Draper , Frank R. Kschischang

We formulate a $p$-adic optimisation problem on matrix factorisation, and investigate a heuristic method for it analogous to PCA.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Tomoki Mihara

Principal component analysis (PCA) has achieved great success in unsupervised learning by identifying covariance correlations among features. If the data collection fails to capture the covariance information, PCA will not be able to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Ziming Liu , Sitian Qian , Yixuan Wang , Yuxuan Yan , Tianyi Yang

We extend the scope of differential machine learning and introduce a new breed of supervised principal component analysis to reduce dimensionality of Derivatives problems. Applications include the specification and calibration of pricing…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-19 Brian Huge , Antoine Savine

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

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