Poster
Online PCA for Contaminated Data
Jiashi Feng · Huan Xu · Shie Mannor · Shuicheng Yan

Sat Dec 7th 07:00 -- 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor #None
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We consider the online Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for contaminated samples (containing outliers) which are revealed sequentially to the Principal Components (PCs) estimator. Due to their sensitiveness to outliers, previous online PCA algorithms fail in this case and their results can be arbitrarily bad. Here we propose the online robust PCA algorithm, which is able to improve the PCs estimation upon an initial one steadily, even when faced with a constant fraction of outliers. We show that the final result of the proposed online RPCA has an acceptable degradation from the optimum. Actually, under mild conditions, online RPCA achieves the maximal robustness with a $50\%$ breakdown point. Moreover, online RPCA is shown to be efficient for both storage and computation, since it need not re-explore the previous samples as in traditional robust PCA algorithms. This endows online RPCA with scalability for large scale data.

Author Information

Jiashi Feng (UC Berkeley)
Huan Xu (National University of Singapore)
Shie Mannor (Technion)
Shuicheng Yan (National University of Singapore)

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