arXiv Machine Learning

The Risk Shadow of Principal Component Analysis: When 99.9999% Variance Preservation Causes Catastrophic Decision Errors

arXiv:2606. 14533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) preserves variance, not the information needed to detect rare catastrophic events.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Heavy-Tailed Principal Component Analysis

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.

By Mario Sayde, Christopher Khater, Jihad Fahs, Ibrahim Abou-Faycal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Anchor PCA

arXiv:2606. 06233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used unsupervised dimension reduction techniques.

By Benedikt Seiter, Anya Fries, Julius von K\"ugelgen, Jonas Peters
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

A solvable high-dimensional model where nonlinear autoencoders learn structure invisible to PCA while test loss misaligns with generalization

arXiv:2602. 10680v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many real-world datasets contain hidden structure that cannot be detected by simple linear correlations between input features.

By Vicente Conde Mendes, Lorenzo Bardone, C\'edric Koller, Jorge Medina Moreira, Vittorio Erba, Emanuele Troiani, Lenka Zdeborov\'a
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

Volatility-Aware Extreme Event Detection in High-Frequency Financial Markets

Predicting extreme price movements in high-frequency financial markets is a challenging task due to non-stationarity, heavy-tailed return distributions, and severe class imbalance. In particular, rare but impactful events are often difficult to detect using conventional modeling approaches, which typically treat extreme movements as isolated observations.