Multivariate Gaussian data is completely characterized by its mean and covariance, yet modern non-Gaussian data makes higher-order statistics such as cumulants inevitable. For univariate data, the third and fourth scalar-valued cumulants are relatively well-studied as skewness and kurtosis. For multivariate data, these cumulants are tensor-valued, higher-order analogs of the covariance matrix c...

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a canonical and well-studied tool for dimensionality reduction. However, when few data are available, the poor quality of the covariance estimator at its core may compromise its performance. We leverage this issue by casting the PCA into a multitask framework, and doing so, we show how to solve simultaneously several related PCA problems. Hence, we propose ...

A new method for performing a nonlinear form of Principal Component Analysis is proposed. By the use of integral operator kernel functions, one can e ciently compute principal components in high{ dimensional feature spaces, related to input space by some nonlinear map; for instance the space of all possible d{pixel products in images. We give the derivation of the method and present experimenta...

Many tasks involving high-dimensional data, such as face recognition, suffer from the curse of dimensionality: the number of training samples required to accurately learn a classifier increases exponentially with the dimensionality of the data. Structured Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) reduces the dimensionality of the data by choosing a small number of features to represent larger sets of...

We present a new technique called contrastive principal component analysis (cPCA) that is designed to discover low-dimensional structure that is unique to a dataset, or enriched in one dataset relative to other data. The technique is a generalization of standard PCA, for the setting where multiple datasets are available – e.g. a treatment and a control group, or a mixed versus a homogeneous pop...

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 underlying structures. One of the equivalent definitions of PCA is that it seeks the subspaces that maximize the sum of squared pairwise distances between d...

Redundancy reduction on the basis of the second-order statistics of natural images has been very successful in accounting for the psychophysics of low-level vision. Here we study the second-order statistics of natural sound ensembles using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Their eigen spectra exhibit a nite-size scaling behavior as a function of the window size, with universality after the 2{...

Problem Statement Experimental data to be analyzed is often represented as a number of vectors of fixed dimensionality. A single vector could for example be a set of temperature measurements across Germany. Taking such a vector of measurements at different times results in a number of vectors that altogether constitute the data. Each vector can also be interpreted as a point in a high dimension...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used in data processing and dimensionality reduction. However, PCA suffers from the fact that each principal component is a linear combination of all the original variables, thus it is often difficult to interpret the results. We introduce a new method called sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) using the lasso (elastic net) to produce modified...