Tensor Decompositions: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis
Tamara Kolda
Sandia Laboratory, Livermore
Abstract:
Tensors are multiway arrays, and tensor decompositions are powerful tools for
data analysis and compression. In this talk, we demonstrate the wide-ranging
utility of both the canonical polyadic (CP) and Tucker tensor decompositions
with examples in neuroscience, chemical detection, and combustion science. The
CP model is extremely useful for interpretation, as we show with an example in
neuroscience. However, it can be difficult to fit to real data for a variety of
reasons. We present a novel randomized method for fitting the CP decomposition
to dense data that is more scalable and robust than the standard techniques.
The Tucker model is useful for compression and can guarantee the accuracy of
the approximation. We show that it can be used to compress massive data sets by
orders of magnitude; this is done by determining the latent low-dimensional
multilinear manifolds.
This talk features joint work with Woody Austin (University of Texas), Casey
Battaglino (Georgia Tech), Grey Ballard (Wake Forrest), Alicia Klinvex
(Sandia), Hemanth Kolla (Sandia), and Alex Williams (Stanford University)