IP Library Granted Patent US 8,099,381
Granted Patent B2
US 8,099,381 · App. 12/199,912 · Granted Jan 17, 2012

Processing high-dimensional data via EM-style iterative algorithm

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Patent No.
US 8,099,381
App. No.
12/199,912
Granted
Jan 17, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for factorizing high-dimensional data by simultaneously capturing factors for all data dimensions and their correlations in a factor model, wherein the factor model provides a parsimonious description of the data; and generating a corresponding loss function to evaluate the factor model.

Claims (24)

1. A method for factorizing high-dimensional data, comprising:

simultaneously capturing factors for all data dimensions and their correlations in a factor model; and

generating a corresponding loss function to evaluate the factor model expressed as a non-negative tensor factorization and to minimize a predetermined loss between observed data and data predicted by the generative model; and

applying EM-style iterative algorithm for solving the non-negative tensor factorization.

2. The method of claim 1 , comprising generating a data tensor from the high dimensional input data.

3. The method of claim 1 , comprising generating one or more factors and factor relationships using a factorization algorithm.

4. The method of claim 1 , comprising applying the factors and their relationships to a recommendation application.

5. The method of claim 1 , comprising applying the factors and their relations to the clustering application.

6. The method of claim 1 , comprising applying the factors and their relations to the summarization application.

7. The method of claim 1 , comprising applying a Kullback-Leibler divergence to measure an error in tensor factorization.

8. The method of claim 1 , comprising applying alternative algorithm to learn the model parameters.

9. The method of claim 1 , comprising applying a Frobenius tensor norm to measure an error in tensor factorization.

10. The method of claim 1 , comprising deriving a probabilistic factor model.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the probabilistic factor model is used generate a discriminative version and a version containing regularization on result sparseness.

12. The method of claim 1 , comprising approximating the data using a non-negative tensor factorization.

13. The method of claim 1 , comprising generating a set of matrices which represent the factors in different dimensions of the data.

14. The method of claim 1 , comprising generating a tensor representing correlations among the factors in different dimensions of data.

15. A system for factorizing high-dimensional observed data, comprising:

means for deriving a generative model that simultaneously captures factors for all data dimensions and their correlations;

means for generating predicted data and mapping the generative model into a non-negative tensor factorization and means for minimizing a predetermined loss between observed data and data predicted by the generative model; and

means for minimizing the predetermined loss between the observed data and the predicted data and to generate a tensor that represents the correlations among the factors in different dimensions of data by applying EM-style iterative algorithm for solving the non-negative tensor factorization.

16. The system of claim 15 , comprising means for generating a set of matrices which represent the factors in different dimensions of the data with the regenerative model including Cx 1 X 1 x 2 X 2 . . . x N X N , where X 1 , . . . , X N are the factors in first, second, . . . , and N-th dimensions, C is a core tensor to capture a correlation among the factors X 1 , . . . , X N , where X 1 , . . . , X N are nonnegative and a sum of each column of X 1 , . . . , X N is one.

17. The system of claim 15 , comprising means for generating a tensor representing correlations among the factors in different dimensions of data.

18. The system of claim 15 , comprising means for applying EM-style iterative algorithm for solving the non-negative tensor factorization (NTF).

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