arxivstat.MEstat.ML2026-07-08
Mixtures of spatial factor analyzers for tensor-variate data
Hanzhang Lu, Keiran Malott, Kirsty Milligan, Sanjeena Subedi, Edana Cassol, Vinita Chauhan, et al.
A mixture of spatial factor analyzers (MSFA) is introduced to address the challenges of clustering high-dimensional spatial data. By leveraging the underlying coordinate system, the proposed framework incorporates a flexible, spline-based spatial decay covariance structure that p…