Section: New Results

Axis 2: Sequential Learning of Principal Curves: Summarizing Data Streams on the Fly

Participants : Benjamin Guedj, Le Li.

When confronted with massive data streams, summarizing data with dimension reduction methods such as PCA raises theoretical and algorithmic pitfalls. Principal curves act as a nonlinear generalization of PCA and the present paper proposes a novel algorithm to automatically and sequentially learn principal curves from data streams. We show that our procedure is supported by regret bounds with optimal sublinear remainder terms. A greedy local search implementation that incorporates both sleeping experts and multi-armed bandit ingredients is presented, along with its regret bound and performance on a toy example and seismic data.

Preprint submitted: [47].