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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly used statistical methods for data exploration, and for dimensionality reduction wherein the first few principal components account for an appreciable proportion of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-11 Caren Marzban , Ulvi Yurtsever , Michael Richman

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental data preprocessing tool in the world of machine learning. While PCA is often thought of as a dimensionality reduction method, the purpose of PCA is actually two-fold: dimension reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Arpita Gang , Waheed U. Bajwa

This paper delivers improved theoretical guarantees for the convex programming approach in low-rank matrix estimation, in the presence of (1) random noise, (2) gross sparse outliers, and (3) missing data. This problem, often dubbed as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-13 Yuxin Chen , Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma , Yuling Yan

Recently years, the attempts on distilling mobile data into useful knowledge has been led to the deployment of machine learning algorithms at the network edge. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classic technique for extracting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Rui Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Kaibin Huang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique in machine learning and multivariate statistics. To improve the interpretability of PCA, various approaches to obtain sparse principal direction loadings have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Agniva Chowdhury , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Singular value decomposition (SVD) based principal component analysis (PCA) breaks down in the high-dimensional and limited sample size regime below a certain critical eigen-SNR that depends on the dimensionality of the system and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Arvind Prasadan , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Debashis Paul

We develop a new principal components analysis (PCA) type dimension reduction method for binary data. Different from the standard PCA which is defined on the observed data, the proposed PCA is defined on the logit transform of the success…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-17 Seokho Lee , Jianhua Z. Huang , Jianhua Hu

We develop a novel analogue of Euclidean PCA (principal component analysis) for data taking values on a Riemannian symmetric space, using totally geodesic submanifolds as approximating lower dimnsional submanifolds. We illustrate the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Stephen R Marsland , Robert I McLachlan , Charles Curry

Principal component analysis (PCA) is often used for analyzing data in the most diverse areas. In this work, we report an integrated approach to several theoretical and practical aspects of PCA. We start by providing, in an intuitive and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Felipe L. Gewers , Gustavo R. Ferreira , Henrique F. de Arruda , Filipi N. Silva , Cesar H. Comin , Diego R. Amancio , Luciano da F. Costa

We study efficient distributed algorithms for the fundamental problem of principal component analysis and leading eigenvector computation on the sphere, when the data are randomly distributed among a set of computational nodes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Foivos Alimisis , Peter Davies , Bart Vandereycken , Dan Alistarh

Suppose we observe data of the form $Y_i = D_i (S_i + \varepsilon_i) \in \mathbb{R}^p$ or $Y_i = D_i S_i + \varepsilon_i \in \mathbb{R}^p$, $i=1,\ldots,n$, where $D_i \in \mathbb{R}^{p\times p}$ are known diagonal matrices, $\varepsilon_i$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Edgar Dobriban , William Leeb , Amit Singer

Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis (TRPCA) is a fundamental technique for decomposing multi-dimensional data into a low-rank tensor and an outlier tensor, yet existing methods relying on sparse outlier assumptions often fail under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yangyang Xu , Kexin Li , Li Yang , You-Wei Wen

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

In this paper, we explore the theoretical properties of subspace recovery using Winsorized Principal Component Analysis (WPCA), utilizing a common data transformation technique that caps extreme values to mitigate the impact of outliers.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-25 Sangil Han , Kyoowon Kim , Sungkyu Jung

A central problem of random matrix theory is to understand the eigenvalues of spiked random matrix models, in which a prominent eigenvector is planted into a random matrix. These distributions form natural statistical models for principal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira , Ankur Moitra

For the size of the largest component in a supercritical random geometric graph, this paper estimates its expectation which tends to a polynomial on a rate of exponential decay, and sharpens its asymptotic result with a central limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Ge Chen , Chang-Long Yao , Tian-De Guo

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

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

This paper examines several applications of principal component analysis (PCA) to physical systems. The first of these demonstrates that the principal components in a basis of appropriate system variables can be employed to identify…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-24 David Yevick

A central problem of random matrix theory is to understand the eigenvalues of spiked random matrix models, introduced by Johnstone, in which a prominent eigenvector (or "spike") is planted into a random matrix. These distributions form…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira , Ankur Moitra