NP-Hardness and Inapproximability of Sparse PCA

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Authors Malik Magdon-Ismail arXiv ID 1502.05675 Category cs.LG: Machine Learning Cross-listed cs.CC, cs.DS, math.CO, stat.ML Citations 44 Venue Information Processing Letters Last Checked 6 months ago
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We give a reduction from {\sc clique} to establish that sparse PCA is NP-hard. The reduction has a gap which we use to exclude an FPTAS for sparse PCA (unless P=NP). Under weaker complexity assumptions, we also exclude polynomial constant-factor approximation algorithms.
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