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The 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008)

Expectation-Maximization for Sparse and Non-Negative PCA

author: Christian David Sigg, Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich

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We study the problem of finding the dominant eigenvector of the sample covariance matrix, under additional constraints on its elements: a cardinality constraint limits the number of non-zero elements, and non-negativity forces the elements to have equal sign. This problem is known as sparse and non-negative principal component analysis (PCA), and has many applications including dimensionality reduction and feature selection. Based on expectation-maximization for probabilistic PCA, we present an algorithm for any combination of these constraints. Its complexity is at most quadratic in the number of dimensions of the data. We demonstrate significant improvements in performance and computational efficiency compared to the state-of-the-art, using large data sets from biology and computer vision.

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0:00 Expectation Maximization for Sparse and Non-Negative PCA
0:16 Overview - Introduction
0:17 Constrained PCA
1:36 Motivation and Applications
4:01 Combinatorial Solvers
4:51 Continuous Approximation
5:44 Overview - Method
5:46 Generative Model
6:34 Limit-Case EM Algorithm
7:54 Adding Constraints
8:47 Axis-Aligned Gradient Descent
10:11 Multiple Principal Components
11:09 Overview - Experiments and Results
11:13 Algorithms and Datasets
12:44 Variance vs. Cardinality - 1
14:06 Computational Complexity
15:59 Variance vs. Cardinality - 2
16:44 Multiple Principal Components
18:13 Unsupervised Gene Selection
19:50 Overview - Conclusions
19:51 Summary
20:37 - Questions
22:04 - Questions
23:27 - Questions

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