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Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly used statistical procedures with a wide range of applications. This paper considers both minimax and adaptive estimation of the principal subspace in the high dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-08 T. Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

We consider the sampling problem for functional PCA (fPCA), where the simplest example is the case of taking time samples of the underlying functional components. More generally, we model the sampling operation as a continuous linear map…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Arash A. Amini , Martin J. Wainwright

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) methods are efficient tools to reduce the dimension (or the number of variables) of complex data. Sparse principal components (PCs) are easier to interpret than conventional PCs, because most…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-22 Dan Shen , Haipeng Shen , J. S. Marron

We study sparse principal components analysis in the high-dimensional setting, where $p$ (the number of variables) can be much larger than $n$ (the number of observations). We prove optimal, non-asymptotic lower and upper bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-07 Vincent Q. Vu , Jing Lei

Sparse principal component analysis (sPCA) has become one of the most widely used techniques for dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional datasets. The main challenge underlying sPCA is to estimate the first vector of loadings of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-01 Jana Janková , Sara van de Geer

High dimensional data has introduced challenges that are difficult to address when attempting to implement classical approaches of statistical process control. This has made it a topic of interest for research due in recent years. However,…

Applications · Statistics 2019-04-23 Mohammad Nabhan , Yajun Mei , Jianjun Shi

Principal component analysis (PCA) is possibly one of the most widely used statistical tools to recover a low-rank structure of the data. In the high-dimensional settings, the leading eigenvector of the sample covariance can be nearly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Chao Gao , Harrison H. Zhou

This work studies estimation of sparse principal components in high dimensions. Specifically, we consider a class of estimators based on kernel PCA, generalizing the covariance thresholding algorithm proposed by Krauthgamer et al. (2015).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Michael J. Feldman , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Elad Romanov

We present and analyze a simple, two-step algorithm to approximate the optimal solution of the sparse PCA problem. Our approach first solves a L1 penalized version of the NP-hard sparse PCA optimization problem and then uses a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Kimon Fountoulakis , Abhisek Kundu , Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Petros Drineas

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique wherein one seeks a low-rank representation of a data matrix with additional sparsity constraints on the obtained representation. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

We study computational-statistical gaps for improper learning in sparse linear regression. More specifically, given $n$ samples from a $k$-sparse linear model in dimension $d$, we ask what is the minimum sample complexity to efficiently (in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Rares-Darius Buhai , Jingqiu Ding , Stefan Tiegel

We develop machinery to design efficiently computable and consistent estimators, achieving estimation error approaching zero as the number of observations grows, when facing an oblivious adversary that may corrupt responses in all but an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Tommaso d'Orsi , Chih-Hung Liu , Rajai Nasser , Gleb Novikov , David Steurer , Stefan Tiegel

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for dimensional reduction of a set of $n$ observations (samples), each with $p$ variables. In this paper, using a matrix perturbation approach, we study the nonasymptotic relation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Boaz Nadler

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

We study the detection of a sparse change in a high-dimensional mean vector as a minimax testing problem. Our first main contribution is to derive the exact minimax testing rate across all parameter regimes for $n$ independent, $p$-variate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Haoyang Liu , Chao Gao , Richard J. Samworth

In sparse principal component analysis we are given noisy observations of a low-rank matrix of dimension $n\times p$ and seek to reconstruct it under additional sparsity assumptions. In particular, we assume here each of the principal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

We study statistical and computational limits of clustering when the means of the centres are sparse and their dimension is possibly much larger than the sample size. Our theoretical analysis focuses on the model $X_i = z_i \theta +…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Matthias Löffler , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira

Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combination. This is known as sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Youwei Zhang , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

Multivariate count data with many zeros frequently occur in a variety of application areas such as text mining with a document-term matrix and cluster analysis with microbiome abundance data. Exponential family PCA (Collins et al., 2001) is…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-22 Ruochen Huang , Yoonkyung Lee

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a cardinal technique for obtaining combinations of features, or principal components (PCs), that explain the variance of high-dimensional datasets in an interpretable manner. This involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet
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