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In this work, we develop a novel principal component analysis (PCA) for semimartingales by introducing a suitable spectral analysis for the quadratic variation operator. Motivated by high-dimensional complex systems typically found in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Alberto Ohashi , Alexandre B Simas

The principal component analysis (PCA) is a staple statistical and unsupervised machine learning technique in finance. The application of PCA in a financial setting is associated with several technical difficulties, such as numerical…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-08-31 Paul Bilokon , David Finkelstein

Hyperspectral optical imaging provides rich spectral information for estimating continuous environmental and material parameters; however, its high dimensionality and strong feature correlation pose significant challenges for machine…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-18 Parisa Parand , Mahmoud Samadpour

Principal component analysis (PCA) is very popular to perform dimension reduction. The selection of the number of significant components is essential but often based on some practical heuristics depending on the application. Only few works…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-19 Clément Elvira , Pierre Chainais , Nicolas Dobigeon

Many machine learning techniques rely on minimizing the covariance between output feature dimensions to extract minimally redundant representations from data. However, these methods do not eliminate all dependencies/redundancies, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Pierre-François De Plaen , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

This paper describes some applications of an incremental implementation of the principal component analysis (PCA). The algorithm updates the transformation coefficients matrix on-line for each new sample, without the need to keep all the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-14 Vittorio Lippi , Giacomo Ceccarelli

We present a novel approach for adaptive, differentiable parameterization of large-scale random fields. If the approach is coupled with any gradient-based optimization algorithm, it can be applied to a variety of optimization problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Maksim Elizarev , Andrei Mukhin , Aleksey Khlyupin

Dimensionality reduction represents a critical preprocessing step in order to increase the efficiency and the performance of many hyperspectral imaging algorithms. However, dimensionality reduction algorithms, such as the Principal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 E. Martel , R. Lazcano , J. Lopez , D. Madroñal , R. Salvador , S. Lopez , E. Juarez , R. Guerra , C. Sanz , R. Sarmiento

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

Data analysis often requires methods that are invariant with respect to specific transformations, such as rotations in case of images or shifts in case of images and time series. While principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely-used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-30 Florian Heinrichs

Principal Subspace Analysis (PSA) -- and its sibling, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) -- is one of the most popular approaches for dimensionality reduction in signal processing and machine learning. But centralized PSA/PCA solutions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Arpita Gang , Bingqing Xiang , Waheed U. Bajwa

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental technique for dimensionality reduction and denoising; however, its application to three-dimensional data with arbitrary orientations -- common in structural biology -- presents significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Michael Fraiman , Paulina Hoyos , Tamir Bendory , Joe Kileel , Oscar Mickelin , Nir Sharon , Amit Singer

Dimensionality reduction is a crucial step for pattern recognition and data mining tasks to overcome the curse of dimensionality. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a traditional technique for unsupervised dimensionality reduction, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Zan Gao , Guotai Zhang , Feiping Nie , Hua Zhang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is arguably the most widely used approach for large-dimensional factor analysis. While it is effective when the factors are sufficiently strong, it can be inconsistent when the factors are weak and/or the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-22 Zhongyuan Lyu , Ming Yuan

The statistical analysis of tree structured data is a new topic in statistics with wide application areas. Some Principal Component Analysis (PCA) ideas were previously developed for binary tree spaces. In this study, we extend these ideas…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-02-14 Carlos A. Alfaro , Burcu Aydın , Elizabeth Bullitt , Alim Ladha , Carlos E. Valencia

The first order behavior of multivariate heavy-tailed random vectors above large radial thresholds is ruled by a limit measure in a regular variation framework. For a high dimensional vector, a reasonable assumption is that the support of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Holger Drees , Anne Sabourin

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used method for data processing, such as for dimension reduction and visualization. Standard PCA is known to be sensitive to outliers, and thus, various robust PCA methods have been proposed.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Keishi Sando , Hideitsu Hino

Multiway data are becoming more and more common. While there are many approaches to extending principal component analysis (PCA) from usual data matrices to multiway arrays, their conceptual differences from the usual PCA, and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-15 Jialin Ouyang , Ming Yuan

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a workhorse of modern data science. While PCA assumes the data conforms to Euclidean geometry, for specific data types, such as hierarchical and cyclic data structures, other spaces are more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-11 Puoya Tabaghi , Michael Khanzadeh , Yusu Wang , Sivash Mirarab

Dimensionality reduction algorithms like principal component analysis (PCA) are workhorses of machine learning and neuroscience, but each has well-known limitations. Variants of PCA are simple and interpretable, but not flexible enough to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 John J. Vastola , Samuel J. Gershman , Kanaka Rajan