Bayesian learning for robust principal component analysis

We develop a Bayesian learning method for robust principal component analysis where the main task is to estimate a low-rank matrix from noisy and outlier contaminated measurements. To promote low-rank, we use a structured Gaussian prior that induces correlations among column vectors as well as row vectors of the matrix under estimation. In our method, the noise and outliers are modeled by a combined noise model. The method is evaluated and compared to other methods using synthetic data as well as data from the MovieLens 100Kdataset. Comparisons show that the method empirically provides a significant performance improvement over existing methods.