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# High Dimensional Semiparametric Scale-Invariant Principal Component Analysis

## Author(s): Han, Fang; Liu, Han

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 Abstract: We propose a new high dimensional semiparametric principal component analysis (PCA) method, named Copula Component Analysis (COCA). The semiparametric model assumes that, after unspecified marginally monotone transformations, the distributions are multivariate Gaussian. COCA improves upon PCA and sparse PCA in three aspects: (i) It is robust to modeling assumptions; (ii) It is robust to outliers and data contamination; (iii) It is scale-invariant and yields more interpretable results. We prove that the COCA estimators obtain fast estimation rates and are feature selection consistent when the dimension is nearly exponentially large relative to the sample size. Careful experiments confirm that COCA outperforms sparse PCA on both synthetic and real-world data sets. Publication Date: Oct-2014 Citation: Han, Fang, and Han Liu. "High dimensional semiparametric scale-invariant principal component analysis." IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 36, no. 10 (2014): 2016-2032. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2307886 DOI: doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2307886 ISSN: 0162-8828 EISSN: 1939-3539 Pages: 2016 - 2032 Type of Material: Journal Article Journal/Proceeding Title: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Version: Author's manuscript

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