{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/on-koopman-mode-decomposition-and-tensor","title":"On Koopman Mode Decomposition and Tensor Component Analysis","arxiv_id":"2101.00555","date":"2021-01-03","proceeding":null,"authors":["William T. Redman"],"abstract":"Koopman mode decomposition and tensor component analysis (also known as CANDECOMP/PARAFAC or canonical polyadic decomposition) are two popular approaches of decomposing high dimensional data sets into low dimensional modes that capture the most relevant features and/or dynamics. Despite their similar goal, the two methods are largely used by different scientific communities and formulated in distinct mathematical languages. We examine the two together and show that, under a certain (reasonable) condition on the data, the theoretical decomposition given by tensor component analysis is the \\textit{same} as that given by Koopman mode decomposition. This provides a \"bridge\" with which the two communities should be able to more effectively communicate. When this condition is not met, Koopman mode decomposition still provides a tensor decomposition with an \\textit{a priori} computable error, providing an alternative to the non-convex optimization that tensor component analysis requires. Our work provides new possibilities for algorithmic approaches to Koopman mode decomposition and tensor component analysis, provides a new perspective on the success of tensor component analysis, and builds upon a growing body of work showing that dynamical systems, and Koopman operator theory in particular, can be useful for problems that have historically made use of optimization theory.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00555v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00555v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"on-koopman-mode-decomposition-and-tensor","repo_url":"https://github.com/william-redman/Koopman-mode-decomposition-and-tensor-component-analysis","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}