Abstract:Multiview latent-variable models provide a fundamental framework for discrete data analysis, with applications to latent structure models, topic models, and mixtures of product distributions. In the discrete setting, the joint distribution of the observed views can be represented as a nonnegative low-rank tensor, which we call a multiview density tensor. We study the problem of estimating this tensor from multinomial count data. A key challenge is that multinomial sampling induces heteroskedastic and dependent noise, so the difficulty of estimation depends not only on the ambient dimensions and rank, but also on how the probability mass is distributed across different locations of sample space.
We propose a general scaling framework for density tensor estimation under multinomial sampling. This framework leads to a spectral estimator for which we prove a Frobenius-norm upper bound that directly handles heteroskedasticity and negative dependence. For the original multiview model, we obtain fiber-mass-dependent Frobenius upper bounds and minimax lower bounds showing that this dependence is unavoidable. Under $\ell_1$ loss, we develop both oracle and feasible data-driven estimators based on the same scaling principle, establish minimax lower bounds, and show near-optimality for the oracle rule at fixed rank and for slice normalization under bounded slice-to-fiber imbalance. Simulations support the theory and demonstrate the robustness of the proposed methods.
| Subjects: | Methodology (stat.ME) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.24858 [stat.ME] |
| (or arXiv:2605.24858v1 [stat.ME] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.24858 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
From: Runshi Tang [view email]
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