Tensor Methods: A New Paradigm for Training Probabilistic Models and Feature Learning

Tensor Methods: A New Paradigm for Training Probabilistic Models and Feature Learning: Tensors are rich structures for modeling complex higher order relationships in data rich domains such as social networks, computer vision, internet of things, and so on. Tensor decomposition methods are embarrassingly parallel and scalable to enormous datasets. They are guaranteed to converge to the global optimum and yield consistent estimates of parameters for many probabilistic models such as topic models, community models, hidden Markov models, and so on. I will show the results of these methods for learning topics from text data, communities in social networks, disease hierarchies from healthcare records, cell types from mouse brain data, etc. I will also demonstrate how tensor methods can yield rich discriminative features for classification tasks and can serve as an alternative method for training neural networks.

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