SuperPCA is a new algorithm for high‑dimensional principal component analysis that exploits an approximate eigenspace of the sample covariance matrix. The authors show that the subspace spanned by several leading eigenvectors contains useful signal information long before individual eigenvectors converge, and they derive posteriori bounds on the angle between this subspace and the true signal subspace. By using only a small number of subsampled coordinates, SuperPCA can achieve up to a ten‑fold improvement in accuracy over classical PCA while reducing data acquisition costs, especially when the signals are approximately sparse.
arXiv:2603. 11308v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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.
The paper tackles two key gaps in streaming PCA using Oja's algorithm: it establishes sharp operator‑norm convergence for general‑rank subspaces under sub‑Gaussian data, and it provides distributional inference for the resulting subspace estimator. The authors remove non‑vanishing remainder terms from existing analyses, achieving rates that match minimax bounds in both dense‑tail and sparse‑tail regimes. They further develop a linearization of Oja’s iterates, enabling high‑dimensional Gaussian approximations and an online multiplier bootstrap for practical inference.
arXiv:2607. 05229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present msPCA: an open-source R package for sparse principal component analysis with multiple components.
arXiv:2606. 06233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used unsupervised dimension reduction techniques.
The paper investigates Partial Least Squares (PLS) in high-dimensional settings, focusing on a model where two data matrices share a low-rank latent structure plus individual-specific components. By analyzing the singular vectors of the cross‑covariance matrix with random matrix theory, the authors derive asymptotic characterizations of how well the estimated latent directions align with the true ones. They show that the PLS variant based on Singular Value Decomposition (PLS‑SVD) outperforms separate principal component analysis in detecting the common latent subspace, while also identifying regimes where PLS‑SVD behaves counter‑intuitively or reaches fundamental limits.
arXiv:2609.05796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) can rotate away from its population target when a covariance matrix is estimated from limited data. We introduce d...
The paper studies streaming principal component analysis under a robust setting where the covariance matrix can vary within a temporal uncertainty set, rather than being fixed. It establishes fundamental convergence limits for any algorithm that recovers principal components and analyzes the noisy power method and Oja's algorithm, showing that the noisy power method achieves rate‑optimal convergence in this setting. Numerical experiments on synthetic and real‑world data confirm the theoretical findings.
arXiv:2609.09211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Davis-Kahan theorem is a fundamental tool in spectral analysis, providing quantitative control over the distance between the eigenspaces of a symme...
arXiv:2601. 10199v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multivariate data often exhibit complex dependencies that violate the assumption of isotropic residual noise.
arXiv:2511. 11927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for extracting a low-rank signal from noisy observations.
arXiv:2605.15240v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper investigates the critical role of eigenalignments between the kernel matrix and learning targets in achieving robust generalizatio...
arXiv:2505. 10882v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Principal component analysis classically requires full $d$-dimensional samples, yet in various applications hardware limits acquisition to a few scalar measurements per sample.