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Assessing tensor decomposition quality of immune profiling data from a dictionary learning perspective

Konstorum, A.; Xing, J.; Aeron, S.; Kilmer, M.; Kleinstein, S.

2026-07-09 bioinformatics
10.64898/2026.07.03.736447 bioRxiv
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Systems-level immune profiling data arising from longitudinal studies of vaccination or infection has an inherent multi-index array structure. While tensor decomposition of such datasets has gained popularity, choosing a rank and trial for a decomposition is not straightforward. We show that taking into account the experimental data model can inspire the development of new metrics to assess the quality of a Non-negative CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (NCPD) decomposition, and can thus be used to choose a rank and trial for the decomposition. Moreover, we show how framing the results via a dictionary learning framework can better enable interpretation of the components of the decomposition.

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