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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

In the era of big data, reducing data dimensionality is critical in many areas of science. Widely used Principal Component Analysis (PCA) addresses this problem by computing a low dimensional data embedding that maximally explain variance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-24 Soheil Feizi , David Tse

The principal component analysis (PCA), a mathematical tool commonly used in statistics, has recently been employed to interpret the $p_T$-dependent fluctuations of harmonic flow $v_n$ in terms of leading and subleading flow modes in heavy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 Ziming Liu , Arabinda Behera , Huichao Song , Jiangyong Jia

We study principal component analysis (PCA), where given a dataset in $\mathbb{R}^d$ from a distribution, the task is to find a unit vector $v$ that approximately maximizes the variance of the distribution after being projected along $v$.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

This paper introduces a robust approach to functional principal component analysis (FPCA) for relative data, particularly density functions. While recent papers have studied density data within the Bayes space framework, there has been…

We revisit the problem of fair principal component analysis (PCA), where the goal is to learn the best low-rank linear approximation of the data that obfuscates demographic information. We propose a conceptually simple approach that allows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Matthäus Kleindessner , Michele Donini , Chris Russell , Muhammad Bilal Zafar

In large-scale statistical modeling, reducing data size through subsampling is essential for balancing computational efficiency and statistical accuracy. We propose a new method, Principal Component Analysis guided Quantile Sampling…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-13 Foo Hui-Mean , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

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

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used dimensionality reduction methods in scientific data analysis. In many applications, for additional interpretability, it is desirable for the factor loadings to be sparse,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Santanu S. Dey , Rahul Mazumder , Marco Molinaro , Guanyi Wang

Dimension reduction is often an important step in the analysis of high-dimensional data. PCA is a popular technique to find the best low-dimensional approximation of high-dimensional data. However, classical PCA is very sensitive to…

Computation · Statistics 2019-01-14 Holger Cevallos-Valdiviezo , Stefan Van Aelst

Distributed computing is a standard way to scale up machine learning and data science algorithms to process large amounts of data. In such settings, avoiding communication amongst machines is paramount for achieving high performance. Rather…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-04 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Austin R. Benson , Anil Damle

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a powerful tool in statistics and machine learning. While existing study of PCA focuses on the recovery of principal components and their associated eigenvalues, there are few precise characterizations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Emmanuel Abbe , Jianqing Fan , Kaizheng Wang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a powerful standard tool for reducing the dimensionality of data. Unfortunately, it is sensitive to outliers so that various robust PCA variants were proposed in the literature. This paper addresses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Sebastian Neumayer , Max Nimmer , Simon Setzer , Gabriele Steidl

We consider the distributionally robust optimization (DRO) model of principal component analysis (PCA) to account for uncertainty in the underlying probability distribution. The resulting formulation leads to a nonsmooth constrained min-max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

Auxiliary information is frequently utilized in survey sampling to improve the efficiency of estimators of the finite population mean. However, the simultaneous use of multiple auxiliary variables often induces multicollinearity, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-30 Rajesh Singh , Shobh Nath Tiwari

In this paper we propose a new iterative algorithm to solve the fair PCA (FPCA) problem. We start with the max-min fair PCA formulation originally proposed in [1] and derive a simple and efficient iterative algorithm which is based on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-11 Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Factor models have been widely used in economics and finance. However, the heavy-tailed nature of macroeconomic and financial data is often neglected in the existing literature. To address this issue and achieve robustness, we propose an…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-30 Yong He , Lingxiao Li , Dong Liu , Wen-Xin Zhou

We propose a multiple imputation method based on principal component analysis (PCA) to deal with incomplete continuous data. To reflect the uncertainty of the parameters from one imputation to the next, we use a Bayesian treatment of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-20 Vincent Audigier , François Husson , Julie Josse

We propose a robust principal component analysis (RPCA) framework to recover low-rank and sparse matrices from temporal observations. We develop an online version of the batch temporal algorithm in order to process larger datasets or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-04 Hong-Lan Botterman , Julien Roussel , Thomas Morzadec , Ali Jabbari , Nicolas Brunel

Often the relation between the variables constituting a multivariate data space might be characterized by one or more of the terms: ``nonlinear'', ``branched'', ``disconnected'', ``bended'', ``curved'', ``heterogeneous'', or, more general,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 Jochen Einbeck , Ludger Evers , Coryn Bailer-Jones
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