Latent factor models (LFMs) are a set of unsupervised methods that model observed high-dimensional data examples by linear combination of latent factors. To enable efficient pro-cessing of large data collections, LFMs aim to find concise descriptions of the members of a data collection while

We propose a semiparametric model for regression problems involving multiple response variables. The model makes use of a set of Gaussian processes that are linearly mixed to capture dependencies that may exist among the response variables. We propose an efficient approximate inference scheme for this semiparametric model whose complexity is linear in the number of training data points. We present experimental results in the domain of multi-joint

. The particular technique used is singular-value decomposition, in which a large term by document matrix is decomposed into a set of ca. 100 or-thogonal factors from which the original matrix can be approximated by linear combination. Documents are represented by ca. 100 item vectors of factor weights. Queries

Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing is a novel approach to automated document indexing which is based on a statistical latent class model for factor analysis of count data. Fitted from a training corpus of text documents by a generalization of the Expectation Maximization algorithm, the utilized

is linear in the number of training data points. 1 Semiparametric Latent Factor Models We are interested in predicting multiple responses yc ∈ Yc, c = 1,..., C from covariates x ∈ X, and we would like to model the responses as conditionally dependent. In statistical terminology, we would like to “share

In this paper, we study latent factor models with dependency structure in the la-tent space. We propose a general learning framework which induces sparsity on the undirected graphical model imposed on the vector of latent factors. A novel latent factor model SLFA is then proposed as a matrix

Abstract. This paper presents a novel statistical method for factor analysis of binary and count data which is closely related to a technique known as Latent Semantic Analysis. In contrast to the latter method which stems from linear algebra and performs a Singular Value Decomposition of co

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class regression on latent factors

Sorting Test (WCST), Tower of Hanoi (TOH), random number generation (RNG), operation span, and dual tasking. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the three target executive functions are moderately correlated with one another, but are clearly separable. Moreover, structural equation modeling