Finite sample approximation results for principal component analysis: A matrix perturbation approach
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主成分分析的有限样本近似：矩阵扰动方法
- 研究问题
- 有限样本主成分的特征值和特征向量与总体对应量相差多大，维度与样本量共同增长的相变现象如何联系有限样本表现？
- 方法与思路
- 作者采用矩阵扰动分析，在尖峰协方差模型下建立高概率有限样本结果，并用线性代数考察高维极限中的特征值和向量重合程度。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称给出首要特征值与特征向量的接近性结果，并解释有限维情形虽无严格相变，样本特征向量仍可能突然失去对信号的追踪。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对尖峰与噪声的模型条件、概率界及其维度依赖、特征向量比较标准，以及有限样本追踪丧失与极限相变的区别。
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原文摘要
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for dimensional reduction of a set of n observations (samples), each with p variables. In this paper, using a matrix perturbation approach, we study the nonasymptotic relation between the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of PCA computed on a finite sample of size n, and those of the limiting population PCA as n→∞. As in machine learning, we present a finite sample theorem which holds with high probability for the closeness between the leading eigenvalue and eigenvector of sample PCA and population PCA under a spiked covariance model. In addition, we also consider the relation between finite sample PCA and the asymptotic results in the joint limit p, n→∞, with p/n=c. We present a matrix perturbation view of the “phase transition phenomenon,” and a simple linear-algebra based derivation of the eigenvalue and eigenvector overlap in this asymptotic limit. Moreover, our analysis also applies for finite p, n where we show that although there is no sharp phase transition as in the infinite case, either as a function of noise level or as a function of sample size n, the eigenvector of sample PCA may exhibit a sharp “loss of tracking,” suddenly losing its relation to the (true) eigenvector of the population PCA matrix. This occurs due to a crossover between the eigenvalue due to the signal and the largest eigenvalue due to noise, whose eigenvector points in a random direction.