arXiv AI

An Ensembled Latent Factor Model via Differential Evolution and Gradient Descent Optimization

arXiv:2606. 04408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-dimensional and incomplete (HDI) data are prevalent in many real-world big data scenarios.

arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 25

Neuro-Causal Factor Analysis

Neuro-Causal Factor Analysis (NCFA) reimagines traditional factor analysis by integrating causal structure learning and deep generative modeling. The method learns a directed graph linking latent and observed variables, then trains a deep generative model that respects the graph’s Markov factorization. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets show NCFA achieves lower reconstruction error than standard FA and better latent distribution recovery than a variational autoencoder, while offering a sparser architecture, reduced complexity, and causal interpretability.

By Alex Markham, Mingyu Liu, Bryon Aragam, Liam Solus