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Efficient Data Reduction Via PCA-Guided Quantile Based Sampling

Published: January 10, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.06375v1

By: Foo Hui-Mean, Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computer models learn better from less data.

Business Areas:
Big Data Data and Analytics

In large-scale statistical modeling, reducing data size through subsampling is essential for balancing computational efficiency and statistical accuracy. We propose a new method, Principal Component Analysis guided Quantile Sampling (PCA-QS), which projects data onto principal components and applies quantile-based sampling to retain representative and diverse subsets. Compared with uniform random sampling, leverage score sampling, and coreset methods, PCA-QS consistently achieves lower mean squared error and better preservation of key data characteristics, while also being computationally efficient. This approach is adaptable to a variety of data scenarios and shows strong potential for broad applications in statistical computing.

Page Count
34 pages

Category
Statistics:
Computation