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Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) are used to identify global patterns in solar and space data. PCA seeks orthogonal modes of the two-point correlation matrix constructed from a data set. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. C. Cadavid , J. K. Lawrence , A. Ruzmaikin

We present the results of a study to optimize the principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm for planet detection, a new algorithm complementing ADI and LOCI for increasing the contrast achievable next to a bright star. The stellar PSF is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Meshkat , M. Kenworthy , S. P. Quanz , A. Amara

The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays above $10^{17}$ eV is a crucial issue to solve some open questions in astrophysics such as the acceleration and propagation mechanisms. Unfortunately, the standard procedures to identify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Catalani , J. A. Chinellato , V. de Souza , J. Takahashi , G. M. S. Vasconcelos

Principal component analysis (PCA) is perhaps the most widely used method for data dimensionality reduction. A key question in PCA is deciding how many factors to retain. This manuscript describes a new approach to automatically selecting…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Enes Makalic , Daniel F. Schmidt

Machine Learning models are prone to fail when test data are different from training data, a situation often encountered in real applications known as distribution shift. While still valid, the training-time knowledge becomes less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Thomas Cordier , Victor Bouvier , Gilles Hénaff , Céline Hudelot

We apply principal component analysis, a method frequently used in image processing and unsupervised machine learning, to characterize particle displacements observed in the steady shear flow of amorphous solids. PCA produces a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-17 Céline Ruscher , Jörg Rottler

We present a principal component analysis method which tracks and compensates for short-timescale variability in pulsar profiles, with a goal of improving pulsar timing precision. We couple this with a fast likelihood technique for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Hsiu-Hsien Lin , Kiyoshi Masui , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a classical method for the reduction of dimensionality of data in the form of n observations (or cases) of a vector with p variables. For a simple model of factor analysis type, it is proved that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-29 Iain M Johnstone , Arthur Yu Lu

In this work we apply the principal component analysis (PCA) method with kernel trick to study classification of phases and phase transition in classical XY models in frustrated lattices. Comparing to our previous work with linear PCA…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-26 Ce Wang , Hui Zhai

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a most frequently used statistical tool in almost all branches of data science. However, like many other statistical tools, there is sometimes the risk of misuse or even abuse. In this paper, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-12 Xinyu Zhang , Howell Tong

The problem of principle component analysis (PCA) is traditionally solved by spectral or algebraic methods. We show how computing the leading principal component could be reduced to solving a \textit{small} number of well-conditioned {\it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Dan Garber , Elad Hazan

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a data dimensionality reduction technique well-suited for processing data from sensor networks. It can be applied to tasks like compression, event detection, and event recognition. This technique is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-13 Yann-Aël Le Borgne , Sylvain Raybaud , Gianluca Bontempi

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a very successful dimensionality reduction technique, widely used in predictive modeling. A key factor in its widespread use in this domain is the fact that the projection of a dataset onto its first…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-19 Xianghui Luo , Robert J. Durrant

Modal analysis techniques are used to identify patterns and develop reduced-order models in a variety of fluid applications. However, experimentally acquired flow fields may be corrupted with incorrect and missing entries, which may degrade…

TimeCluster is a visual analytics technique for discovering structure in long multivariate time series by projecting overlapping windows of data into a low-dimensional space. We show that, when Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Christian L. Hines , Samuel Spillard , Daniel P. Martin

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence techniques have proved to be very successful when applied to problems in physical sciences. Here we apply an unsupervised Machine Learning (ML) algorithm called Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 T. Tula , G. Möller , J. Quintanilla , S. R. Giblin , A. D. Hillier , E. E. McCabe , S. Ramos , D. S. Barker , S. Gibson

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widespread technique for data analysis that relies on the covariance-correlation matrix of the analyzed data. However to properly work with high-dimensional data, PCA poses severe mathematical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-18 Luigi Leonardo Palese

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a well-known linear dimension-reduction technique designed for Euclidean data. In a wide spectrum of applied fields, however, it is common to observe multivariate circular data (also known as toroidal…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-22 Eduardo García-Portugués , Arturo Prieto-Tirado

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

There have been significant developments in the period estimation tools and methods for analysing high energy pulsars in the past few decades. However, these tools lack well-standardised methods for calculating uncertainties in period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Akshat Singhal , Ishan Jain , Suman Bala , Varun Bhalerao