Sparse Submodular Probabilistic PCA
Rajiv Khanna, Joydeep Ghosh, Russell Poldrack, Oluwasanmi Koyejo
Abstract
We propose a novel approach for sparse probabilistic principal component analysis, that combines a low rank representation for the latent factors and loadings with a novel sparse variational inference approach for estimating distributions of latent variables subject to sparse support constraints. Inference and parameter estimation for the resulting model is achieved via expectation maximization with a novel variational inference method for the E-step that induces sparsity. We show that this inference problem can be reduced to discrete optimal support selection. The discrete optimization is submodular, hence, greedy selection is guaranteed to achieve 1-1/e fraction of the optimal. Empirical studies indicate effectiveness of the proposed approach for the recovery of a parsimonious decomposition as compared to established baseline methods. We also evaluate our method against state-of-the-art methods on high dimensional fMRI data, and show that the method performs as good as or better than other methods.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v38-khanna15,
title = {{Sparse Submodular Probabilistic PCA}},
author = {Khanna, Rajiv and Ghosh, Joydeep and Poldrack, Russell and Koyejo, Oluwasanmi},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
pages = {453--461},
year = {2015},
editor = {Lebanon, Guy and Vishwanathan, S. V. N.},
volume = {38},
series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
address = {San Diego, California, USA},
month = {09--12 May},
publisher = {PMLR},
pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v38/khanna15.pdf},
url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v38/khanna15.html},
abstract = {We propose a novel approach for sparse probabilistic principal component analysis, that combines a low rank representation for the latent factors and loadings with a novel sparse variational inference approach for estimating distributions of latent variables subject to sparse support constraints. Inference and parameter estimation for the resulting model is achieved via expectation maximization with a novel variational inference method for the E-step that induces sparsity. We show that this inference problem can be reduced to discrete optimal support selection. The discrete optimization is submodular, hence, greedy selection is guaranteed to achieve 1-1/e fraction of the optimal. Empirical studies indicate effectiveness of the proposed approach for the recovery of a parsimonious decomposition as compared to established baseline methods. We also evaluate our method against state-of-the-art methods on high dimensional fMRI data, and show that the method performs as good as or better than other methods.}
}