Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 (NIPS 2003)
Nathan Srebro, Tommi S. Jaakkola
We formulate linear dimensionality reduction as a semi-parametric esti- mation problem, enabling us to study its asymptotic behavior. We gen- eralize the problem beyond additive Gaussian noise to (unknown) non- Gaussian additive noise, and to unbiased non-additive models.