Exact dimensionality selection for Bayesian PCA

Charles Bouveyron, Pierre Latouche and Pierre‐Alexandre Mattei

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2020, vol. 47, issue 1, 196-211

Abstract: We present a Bayesian model selection approach to estimate the intrinsic dimensionality of a high‐dimensional dataset. To this end, we introduce a novel formulation of the probabilisitic principal component analysis model based on a normal‐gamma prior distribution. In this context, we exhibit a closed‐form expression of the marginal likelihood which allows to infer an optimal number of components. We also propose a heuristic based on the expected shape of the marginal likelihood curve in order to choose the hyperparameters. In nonasymptotic frameworks, we show on simulated data that this exact dimensionality selection approach is competitive with both Bayesian and frequentist state‐of‐the‐art methods.

Date: 2020
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