Title
Tensor decomposition for learning Gaussian mixtures from moments
Abstract
In data processing and machine learning, an important challenge is to recover and exploit models that can represent accurately the data. We consider the problem of recovering Gaussian mixture models from datasets. We investigate symmetric tensor decomposition methods for tackling this problem, where the tensor is built from empirical moments of the data distribution. We consider identifiable tensors, which have a unique decomposition, showing that moment tensors built from spherical Gaussian mixtures have this property. We prove that symmetric tensors with interpolation degree strictly less than half their order are identifiable and we present an algorithm, based on simple linear algebra operations, to compute their decomposition. Illustrative experimentations show the impact of the tensor decomposition method for recovering Gaussian mixtures, in comparison with other state-of-the-art approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.jsc.2022.04.002
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Tensor decomposition,Method of moments,Gaussian mixture,Symmetric tensor,Clustering,Simultaneous diagonalisation
Journal
113
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0747-7171
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rima Khouja100.34
Pierre-Alexandre Mattei200.34
Bernard Mourrain31074113.70