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We present a new self-supervised paradigm on point cloud sequence understanding. Inspired by the discriminative and generative self-supervised methods, we design two tasks, namely point cloud sequence based Contrastive Prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao

We study attention mechanisms through the lens of a canonical unsupervised problem: principal component analysis (PCA). We show that, when trained on Gaussian data, both softmax and linear attention layers learn parameters that align with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Claire Boyer

Conventional domain adaptation typically transfers knowledge from a source domain to a stationary target domain. However, in many real-world cases, target data usually emerge sequentially and have continuously evolving distributions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Gangming Zhao , Chaoqi Chen , Wenhao He , Chengwei Pan , Chaowei Fang , Jinpeng Li , Xilin Chen , Yizhou Yu

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is the conventional genome-scale approach used to capture the expression levels of all detectable genes in a biological sample. This is now regularly used for population-based studies designed to identify genetic…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Christopher Thron , Farhad Jafari

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a popular method for dimension reduction and has attracted an unfailing interest for decades. More recently, kernel PCA (KPCA) has emerged as an extension of PCA but, despite its use in practice, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Maxime Haddouche , Benjamin Guedj , John Shawe-Taylor

In this article, we study curvature-like feature value of data sets in Euclidean spaces. First, we formulate such curvature functions with desirable properties under the manifold hypothesis. Then we make a test property for the validity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Yasuhiko Asao , Yuichi Ike

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a commonly used pattern analysis method that maps high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space maximizing the data variance, that results in the promotion of separability of data. Inspired by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Xiaoqiang Hua , Yusuke Ono , Linyu Peng , Yuting Xu

In the course of the last century, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) have become one of the pillars of modern scientific methods. Although PCA is normally addressed as a statistical tool aiming at finding orthogonal directions on which the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Yariv Aizenbud , Barak Sober

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a pivotal technique widely utilized in the realms of machine learning and data analysis. It aims to reduce the dimensionality of a dataset while minimizing the loss of information. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xirong Ma

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

Machine learning models for molecular property prediction generally rely on representations -- such as SMILES strings and molecular graphs -- that overlook the surface-local phenomena driving intermolecular behavior. 3D-based approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alexander Mihalcea

Numerous tools have been recently developed to predict disease phenotypes using single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data. CloudPred is an end-to-end differentiable learning algorithm coupled with a biologically informed mixture model,…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-20 Hossein Moghimianavval , Baharan Meghdadi , Tasmine Clement , Man I Wu

Phylogenetic analysis of DNA or other data commonly gives rise to a collection or sample of inferred evolutionary trees. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) cannot be applied directly to collections of trees since the space of evolutionary…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Tom M. W. Nye

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used to reduce the computational cost associated with numerical simulations of combustion phenomena. However, PCA, which transforms the thermo-chemical state…

A system with many degrees of freedom can be characterized by a covariance matrix; principal components analysis (PCA) focuses on the eigenvalues of this matrix, hoping to find a lower dimensional description. But when the spectrum is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Serena Bradde , William Bialek

While several convolution-like operators have recently been proposed for extracting features out of point clouds, down-sampling an unordered point cloud in a deep neural network has not been rigorously studied. Existing methods down-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ehsan Nezhadarya , Ehsan Taghavi , Ryan Razani , Bingbing Liu , Jun Luo

Since its selection as the method of the year in 2013, single-cell technologies have become mature enough to provide answers to complex research questions. With the growth of single-cell profiling technologies, there has also been a…

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized our ability to analyze gene expression at the resolution of individual cells, providing unprecedented insights into cellular heterogeneity and complex biological systems. This paper…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Megha Patel , Nimish Magre , Himanshi Motwani , Nik Bear Brown

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

Developing a reliable and practical face recognition system is a long-standing goal in computer vision research. Existing literature suggests that pixel-wise face alignment is the key to achieve high-accuracy face recognition. By assuming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Yuting Zhang , Kui Jia , Yueming Wang , Gang Pan , Tsung-Han Chan , Yi Ma