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Title: Zero-Truncated Poisson Tensor Decomposition for Sparse Count Data

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1841834· OSTI ID:1841834
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  1. Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL (United States)
  2. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

We propose a novel statistical inference paradigm for zero-inflated multiway count data that dispenses with the need to distinguish between true and false zero counts. Our approach ignores all zero entries and applies zero-truncated Poisson regression on the positive counts. Inference is accomplished via tensor completion that imposes low-rank structure on the Poisson parameter space. Our main result shows that an $$\textit{N}$$-way rank-R parametric tensor š“œ Ļµ (0, āˆž)$$I$$Ī§āˆ™āˆ™āˆ™Ī§$$I$$ generating Poisson observations can be accurately estimated from approximately $$IR^2 \text{log}^2_2(I)$$ non-zero counts for a nonnegative canonical polyadic decomposition. Several numerical experiments are presented demonstrating that our zero-truncated paradigm is comparable to the ideal scenario where the locations of false zero counts are known $$\textit{a priori}$$.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
NA0003525
OSTI ID:
1841834
Report Number(s):
SAND2022-0803R; 703028
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English