arXiv:2608.21551stat.MLcs.LG2026-08

提出复数域稀疏可分离因子分析,提升脑电数据协方差估计与缺失值修复。

Sparse Separable Factor Analysis in the Complex Domain with an Application to Local Field Potential Data

论文配图:Sparse Separable Factor Analysis in the Complex Domain with an Application to Local Field Potential Data
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  • 复数张量建模,各维度协方差可分,低秩+对角残差结构
  • 复数软阈值更新加载矩阵,保留相位,压缩模长,提高可解释性
  • 适用于脑区-频率-时间多维结构数据,适合神经信号缺失补全

复数数组在信号处理中广泛存在,科学解读依赖于保持幅度和相位信息。现有协方差估计方法或忽略数据的多维结构,或依赖实数域嵌入,未能直接利用复数结构。我们提出稀疏可分离因子分析(SSFA),一种用于复数张量的潜在因子模型,其协方差结构在各维度上可分。每个维度的协方差矩阵由低秩赫米特因子结构与对角残差协方差组成。为获得可解释估计,对复数加载矩阵施加逐元素Lasso惩罚,并采用逐模式参数扩展期望最大化算法估计参数。加载更新具有闭式复数软阈值解,能收缩模长而保留相位。额外平衡步骤解决可分协方差结构的尺度不可识别问题。模拟实验表明,相比向量化方法(包括复数主成分分析),SSFA显著提升协方差估计性能。将该方法应用于小鼠局部场电位数据,比较不同脑区、频率与时间分组诱导的可分结构,并实现因电极错位导致缺失记录的模型化填补。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Complex-valued arrays arise in signal processing, where scientific interpretation depends on retaining amplitude and phase information. Existing covariance estimation methods either ignore the multiway organization of such data or rely on real-domain embeddings that do not directly exploit their complex structure. We develop sparse separable factor analysis (SSFA), a latent factor model for complex-valued arrays with a separable covariance structure across modes. Each mode-specific covariance matrix is modeled through a low-rank Hermitian factor structure and a diagonal residual covariance matrix. To obtain interpretable estimates, we impose elementwise lasso penalties on the complex loading matrices and estimate the SSFA parameters using a mode-wise parameter-expanded expectation-maximization procedure. The resulting loading updates admit closed-form complex soft-thresholding solutions, which shrink the modulus of each loading while preserving its phase. A separate balancing step resolves the scale nonidentifiability of the separable covariance structure. Simulation studies show that SSFA improves covariance estimation relative to vectorization-based methods, including complex principal component analysis. We apply SSFA to local field potential recordings from mice, where we compare separability structures induced by different groupings of brain region, frequency, and time and perform model-based imputation of recordings missing because of electrode misplacement.

复数建模因子分析神经信号缺失数据

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