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most citedBounded Projection Matrix Approximation with Applications to Community Detection

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stat.ML2026

Mixture of Geodesic Factor Analyzers on Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces

Hengchao Chen, Yuanyao Tan, Chao Huang +2

This paper introduces Mixtures of Geodesic Factor Analyzers (MGFA) on Riemannian homogeneous spaces. MGFA uses a geodesic factor model within each mixture component, providing grea…

cs.CV2026

Distributional Matching for Vector Quantization: A Unified Theoretical and Empirical Framework

Xianghong Fang, Litao Guo, Hengchao Chen +8

The effectiveness of modern visual representation learning and autoregressive models critically depends on vector quantization (VQ), which discretizes continuous feature representa…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Vector Quantization with Distributional Matching: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

Xianghong Fang, Litao Guo, Hengchao Chen +8

The success of autoregressive models largely depends on the effectiveness of vector quantization, a technique that discretizes continuous features by mapping them to the nearest co…

math.OC2024

Decentralized Online Riemannian Optimization with Dynamic Environments

Hengchao Chen, Qiang Sun

This paper develops the first decentralized online Riemannian optimization algorithm on Hadamard manifolds. Our algorithm, the decentralized projected Riemannian gradient descent,…

math.ST2024

Riemannian radial distributions on Riemannian symmetric spaces: Optimal rates of convergence for parameter estimation

Hengchao Chen

Manifold data analysis is challenging due to the lack of parametric distributions on manifolds. To address this, we introduce a series of Riemannian radial distributions on Riemann…

math.MG2024

Quotient geometry of bounded or fixed rank correlation matrices

Hengchao Chen

This paper studies the quotient geometry of bounded or fixed-rank correlation matrices. We establish a bijection between the set of bounded-rank correlation matrices and a quotient…

cs.LG2023

Ridge Estimation with Nonlinear Transformations

Zheng Zhai, Hengchao Chen, Zhigang Yao

Ridge estimation is an important manifold learning technique. The goal of this paper is to examine the effects of nonlinear transformations on the ridge sets. The main result prove…

cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Bounded Projection Matrix Approximation with Applications to Community Detection

Zheng Zhai, Hengchao Chen, Qiang Sun

Community detection is an important problem in unsupervised learning. This paper proposes to solve a projection matrix approximation problem with an additional entrywise bounded co…

math.OC2023

Gradient descent in matrix factorization: Understanding large initialization

Hengchao Chen, Xin Chen, Mohamad Elmasri +1

Gradient Descent (GD) has been proven effective in solving various matrix factorization problems. However, its optimization behavior with large initial values remains less understo…

stat.ML2023

Statistical Analysis of Karcher Means for Random Restricted PSD Matrices

Hengchao Chen, Xiang Li, Qiang Sun

Non-asymptotic statistical analysis is often missing for modern geometry-aware machine learning algorithms due to the possibly intricate non-linear manifold structure. This paper s…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Quadratic Matrix Factorization with Applications to Manifold Learning

Zheng Zhai, Hengchao Chen, Qiang Sun

Matrix factorization is a popular framework for modeling low-rank data matrices. Motivated by manifold learning problems, this paper proposes a quadratic matrix factorization (QMF)…

math.ST2022

Distributed Sparse Multicategory Discriminant Analysis

Hengchao Chen, Qiang Sun

This paper proposes a convex formulation for sparse multicategory linear discriminant analysis and then extend it to the distributed setting when data are stored across multiple si…