Sparse GCA and Thresholded Gradient Descent

Generalized correlation analysis (GCA) is concerned with uncovering linear relationships across multiple data sets. It generalizes canonical correlation analysis that is designed for two data sets. We study sparse GCA when there are potentially multiple leading generalized correlation tuples in data that are of interest and the loading matrix has a small number of nonzero rows. It includes sparse CCA and sparse PCA of correlation matrices as special cases. We first formulate sparse GCA as a generalized eigenvalue problem at …

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