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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 paper, a new method is proposed for sparse PCA based on the recursive divide-and-conquer methodology. The main idea is to separate the original sparse PCA problem into a series of much simpler sub-problems, each having a closed-form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

We consider the problem of maximizing the variance explained from a data matrix using orthogonal sparse principal components that have a support of fixed cardinality. While most existing methods focus on building principal components (PCs)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Driss Lahlou Kitane

We propose a new algorithm for sparse estimation of eigenvectors in generalized eigenvalue problems (GEP). The GEP arises in a number of modern data-analytic situations and statistical methods, including principal component analysis (PCA),…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-29 Sungkyu Jung , Jeongyoun Ahn , Yongho Jeon

In this paper we develop a new approach to sparse principal component analysis (sparse PCA). We propose two single-unit and two block optimization formulations of the sparse PCA problem, aimed at extracting a single sparse dominant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Michel Journée , Yurii Nesterov , Peter Richtárik , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an exploratory tool widely used in data analysis to uncover dominant patterns of variability within a population. Despite its ability to represent a data set in a low-dimensional space, the…

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a widely utilized technique for dimensionality reduction; however, its inherent lack of interpretability-stemming from dense linear combinations of all feature-limits its applicability in many domains.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Loc Hoang Tran

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been used to study the pathogenesis of diseases. To enhance the interpretability of classical PCA, various improved PCA methods have been proposed to date. Among these, a typical method is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Chun-Mei Feng , Yong Xu , Jin-Xing Liu , Ying-Lian Gao , Chun-Hou Zheng

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…

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-12-24 W. Liu , H. Zhang , D. Tao , Y. Wang , K. Lu

Sparse PCA provides a linear combination of small number of features that maximizes variance across data. Although Sparse PCA has apparent advantages compared to PCA, such as better interpretability, it is generally thought to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-10-29 Youwei Zhang , Laurent El Ghaoui

Principal components computed via PCA (principal component analysis) are traditionally used to reduce dimensionality in genomic data or to correct for population stratification. In this paper, we explore the penalized eigenvalue problem…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-04 Rebecca M. Hurwitz , Georg Hahn

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical method for dimensionality reduction based on extracting the dominant eigenvectors of the sample covariance matrix. However, PCA is well known to behave poorly in the ``large $p$, small $n$''…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Arash A. Amini , Martin J. Wainwright

We consider the Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) problem under the well-known spiked covariance model. Recent work has shown that the SPCA problem can be reformulated as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP) and can be solved to global…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-06 Kayhan Behdin , Rahul Mazumder

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction method in data analysis that involves diagonalizing the covariance matrix of the dataset. Recently, quantum algorithms have been formulated for PCA based on diagonalizing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Max Hunter Gordon , M. Cerezo , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

Regularized variants of Principal Components Analysis, especially Sparse PCA and Functional PCA, are among the most useful tools for the analysis of complex high-dimensional data. Many examples of massive data, have both sparse and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-21 Genevera I. Allen , Michael Weylandt

We introduce a novel algorithm that computes the $k$-sparse principal component of a positive semidefinite matrix $A$. Our algorithm is combinatorial and operates by examining a discrete set of special vectors lying in a low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-09 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Stavros Korokythakis

We present and analyze a simple, two-step algorithm to approximate the optimal solution of the sparse PCA problem. Our approach first solves a L1 penalized version of the NP-hard sparse PCA optimization problem and then uses a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Kimon Fountoulakis , Abhisek Kundu , Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Petros Drineas

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (Sparse PCA) is a pivotal tool in data analysis and dimensionality reduction. However, Sparse PCA is a challenging problem in both theory and practice: it is known to be NP-hard and current exact methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Alberto Del Pia , Dekun Zhou , Yinglun Zhu

We present a new straightforward principal component analysis (PCA) method based on the diagonalization of the weighted variance-covariance matrix through two spectral decomposition methods: power iteration and Rayleigh quotient iteration.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-16 Ludovic Delchambre