Empirical Bayes Covariance Decomposition, and a solution to the Multiple Tuning Problem in Sparse PCA

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03274v1
• Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 04:00:42 GMT
• Title: Empirical Bayes Covariance Decomposition, and a solution to the Multiple Tuning Problem in Sparse PCA
• Authors: Joonsuk Kang, Matthew Stephens
• Abstract summary: Sparse Principal Components Analysis (PCA) has been proposed as a way to improve both interpretability and reliability of PCA. We present a solution to the "multiple tuning problem" using Empirical Bayes methods.
• Score: 2.5382095320488673
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sparse Principal Components Analysis (PCA) has been proposed as a way to improve both interpretability and reliability of PCA. However, use of sparse PCA in practice is hindered by the difficulty of tuning the multiple hyperparameters that control the sparsity of different PCs (the "multiple tuning problem", MTP). Here we present a solution to the MTP using Empirical Bayes methods. We first introduce a general formulation for penalized PCA of a data matrix $\mathbf{X}$, which includes some existing sparse PCA methods as special cases. We show that this formulation also leads to a penalized decomposition of the covariance (or Gram) matrix, $\mathbf{X}^T\mathbf{X}$. We introduce empirical Bayes versions of these penalized problems, in which the penalties are determined by prior distributions that are estimated from the data by maximum likelihood rather than cross-validation. The resulting "Empirical Bayes Covariance Decomposition" provides a principled and efficient solution to the MTP in sparse PCA, and one that can be immediately extended to incorporate other structural assumptions (e.g. non-negative PCA). We illustrate the effectiveness of this approach on both simulated and real data examples.

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