## Friday, December 19, 2014

### Video: A Statistical Model for Tensor Principal Component Analysis

A Statistical Model for Tensor Principal Component Analysis
I will discuss the Principal Component Analysis problem for large tensors of arbitrary order k under a single-spike (or rank-one plus noise) model. On the one hand, using information theory, and recent results in probability theory I will provide necessary and sufficient conditions under  which the principal component can be estimated using unbounded computational resources. It turns out that this is possible as soon as the signal-to-noise ratio \beta becomes larger than C\sqrt{k\log k} (and in particular \beta can remain bounded has the problem dimensions increase). On the other hand, I will analyze several polynomial-time estimation algorithms, based on various approaches:
1. Tensor matricization and spectral analysis,
2. Semidefinite relaxations,
3. Power iteration.
I will show that, unless the signal-to-noise ratio diverges in the system dimensions, none of these approaches succeeds. This is possibly related to a fundamental limitation of polynomial estimators for this problem. While complexity theory suggests that intractability holds from a worst case point of view, no analogous result has been proved  under statistical models of the data.

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