Spectral methods for data science : a statistical perspective /

This monograph presents a systematic, yet accessible introduction to spectral methods from a modern statistical perspective. It is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners working in Data Science.

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Main Authors: Chen, Yuxin
Group Author: Chi, Yuejie; Fan, Jianqing; Ma, Cong
Published: Now Publishers,
Publisher Address: Hanover, MA :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, volume 14, issue 5
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Summary: This monograph presents a systematic, yet accessible introduction to spectral methods from a modern statistical perspective. It is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners working in Data Science.
Carrier Form: 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246).
ISBN: 9781680838961
Index Number: QA320
CLC: O177.7
Call Number: O177.7/C518
Contents: Intro -- Introduction -- Motivating applications -- A modern statistical perspective -- Organization -- What is not here and complementary readings -- Notation -- Classical spectral analysis: 2 perturbation theory -- Preliminaries: Basics of matrix analysis -- Preliminaries: Distance and angles between subspaces -- Perturbation theory for eigenspaces -- Perturbation theory for singular subspaces -- Eigenvector perturbation for probability transition matrices -- Appendix: Proofs of auxiliary lemmas in Section 2.2 -- Notes -- Applications of 2 perturbation theory to data science
Preliminaries: Matrix tail bounds -- Low-rank matrix denoising -- Principal component analysis and factor models -- Graph clustering and community recovery -- Clustering in Gaussian mixture models -- Ranking from pairwise comparisons -- Phase retrieval and solving quadratic systems of equations -- Matrix completion -- Tensor completion -- Notes -- Fine-grained analysis: and 2, perturbation theory -- Leave-one-out analysis: An illustrative example -- 2, eigenspace perturbation under independent noise -- 2, singular subspace perturbation under independent noise
Application: Entrywise guarantees for matrix completion -- Application: Exact community recovery -- Distributional theory and uncertainty quantification -- Application: Confidence intervals for matrix completion -- Appendix A: Proof of Theorem 4.2 -- Appendix B: Proof of Corollary 4.3 -- Appendix C: Proof of Theorem 4.4 -- Appendix D: Proof of Theorem 4.10 -- Appendix E: Proof of Theorem 4.11 -- Notes -- Concluding remarks and open problems -- Acknowledgements -- References