Tensor Decompositions: A New Concept in Brain Data Analysis?

Matrix factorizations and their extensions to tensor factorizations and decompositions have become prominent techniques for linear and multilinear blind source separation (BSS), especially multiway Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorization (NMF/NTF), Smooth Component Analysis (SmoCA) and Sparse Component Analysis (SCA). Moreover, tensor decompositions have many other potential applications beyond multilinear BSS, especially feature extraction, classification, dimensionality reduction and multiway clustering. In this paper, we briefly overview new and emerging models and approaches for tensor decompositions in applications to group and linked multiway BSS/ICA, feature extraction, classification and Multiway Partial Least Squares (MPLS) regression problems.