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We introduce Adaptive Subspace PCA (AS-PCA), a framework for principal component analysis of random elements in a general separable Hilbert space. AS-PCA projects the covariance operator onto a data-adaptive finite-dimensional subspace…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Xinyi Li , Margaret Hoch , Michael R. Kosorok

In this paper, we develop new statistical theory for probabilistic principal component analysis models in high dimensions. The focus is the estimation of the noise variance, which is an important and unresolved issue when the number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Damien Passemier , Zhaoyuan Li , Jian-Feng Yao

Principal component analysis (PCA) can be significantly limited when there is too few examples of the target data of interest. We propose a transfer learning approach to PCA (TL-PCA) where knowledge from a related source task is used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sharon Hendy , Yehuda Dar

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 identify the critical deviation scale governing Bayesian evidence accumulation in regular parametric testing. Under integrated Bayes risk with zero-one loss, the risk-optimal rejection boundary lies in a moderate deviation regime, with a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Jyotishka Datta , Nicholas G. Polson , Vadim Sokolov , Daniel Zantedeschi

Linear principal component analysis (PCA) learns (semi-)orthogonal transformations by orienting the axes to maximize variance. Consequently, it can only identify orthogonal axes whose variances are clearly distinct, but it cannot identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Fahdi Kanavati , Lucy Katsnith , Masayuki Tsuneki

Fourier PCA is Principal Component Analysis of a matrix obtained from higher order derivatives of the logarithm of the Fourier transform of a distribution.We make this method algorithmic by developing a tensor decomposition method for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Navin Goyal , Santosh Vempala , Ying Xiao

Principal component analysis (PCA) is by far the most widespread tool for unsupervised learning with high-dimensional data sets. Its application is popularly studied for the purpose of exploratory data analysis and online process…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-12 Stefania Russo , Guangyu Li , Kris Villez

Commonly used in computer vision and other applications, robust PCA represents an algorithmic attempt to reduce the sensitivity of classical PCA to outliers. The basic idea is to learn a decomposition of some data matrix of interest into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Tae-Hyun Oh , Yasuyuki Matsushita , In So Kweon , David Wipf

We study improved approximations to the distribution of the largest eigenvalue $\hat{\ell}$ of the sample covariance matrix of $n$ zero-mean Gaussian observations in dimension $p+1$. We assume that one population principal component has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Jeha Yang , Iain M. Johnstone

A fundamental principle of learning theory is that there is a trade-off between the complexity of a prediction rule and its ability to generalize. Modern machine learning models do not obey this paradigm: They produce an accurate prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Koby Bibas , Meir Feder

Probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) are used to model a variety of discrete spatially extended systems undergoing parallel-updating. We propose an embedding of a number of classical nonequilibrium concepts in the PCA-world. We start from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-17 Christian Maes

This paper establishes bounds on the predictive performance of empirical risk minimization for principal component regression. Our analysis is nonparametric, in the sense that the relation between the prediction target and the predictors is…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-09-18 Christian Brownlees , Guðmundur Stefán Guðmundsson , Yaping Wang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an important tool in exploring data. The conventional approach to PCA leads to a solution which favours the structures with large variances. This is sensitive to outliers and could obfuscate interesting…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-16 A. A. Akinduko , A. N. Gorban

At the crossway of machine learning and data analysis, anomaly detection aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Romain Valla , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a cornerstone of dimensionality reduction, yet its classical formulation relies critically on second-order moments and is therefore fragile in the presence of heavy-tailed data and impulsive noise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mario Sayde , Christopher Khater , Jihad Fahs , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

We consider the dimensionality-reduction problem (finding a subspace approximation of observed data) for contaminated data in the high dimensional regime, where the number of observations is of the same magnitude as the number of variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-05-14 Huan Xu , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) are fundamental methods in machine learning for dimensionality reduction. The former is a technique for finding this approximation in finite dimensions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Søren Hauberg , Baba C. Vemuri

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

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an indispensable tool in many learning tasks that finds the best linear representation for data. Classically, principal components of a dataset are interpreted as the directions that preserve most of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Raphael A. Hauser , Armin Eftekhari , Heinrich F. Matzinger