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A Unified Framework for Outlier-Robust PCA-like Algorithms

Wenzhuo Yang, Huan Xu

Abstract

We propose a unified framework for making a wide range of PCA-like algorithms – including the standard PCA, sparse PCA and non-negative sparse PCA, etc. – robust when facing a constant fraction of arbitrarily corrupted outliers. Our theoretic analysis establishes solid performance guarantees of the proposed framework: its estimation error is upper bounded by a term depending on the intrinsic parameters of the data model, the selected PCA-like algorithm and the fraction of outliers. Comprehensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the outlier-robust PCA-like algorithms derived from our framework have outstanding performance.

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v37-yangc15,
  title = 	 {A Unified Framework for Outlier-Robust PCA-like Algorithms},
  author = 	 {Yang, Wenzhuo and Xu, Huan},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {484--493},
  year = 	 {2015},
  editor = 	 {Bach, Francis and Blei, David},
  volume = 	 {37},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  address = 	 {Lille, France},
  month = 	 {07--09 Jul},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/yangc15.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/yangc15.html},
  abstract = 	 {We propose a unified framework for making a wide range of PCA-like algorithms – including the standard PCA, sparse PCA and non-negative sparse PCA, etc. – robust when facing a constant fraction of arbitrarily corrupted outliers. Our theoretic analysis establishes solid performance guarantees of the proposed framework: its estimation error is upper bounded by a term depending on the intrinsic parameters of the data model, the selected PCA-like algorithm and the fraction of outliers. Comprehensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the outlier-robust PCA-like algorithms derived from our framework have outstanding performance.}
}