Citation

If you use this package in your research, please cite:

The implementation

@software{vbpca_py2026,
  author = {Macdonald, Joshua and Naim, Shany and Ram, Yoav},
  title = {{VBPCApy}: Variational Bayesian PCA with Missing Data Support},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://github.com/yoavram-lab/VBPCApy},
  version = {0.2.0},
}

The algorithm

@article{ilin2010practical,
  title={Practical Approaches to Principal Component Analysis in the Presence of Missing Values},
  author={Ilin, Alexander and Raiko, Tapani},
  journal={Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  volume={11},
  pages={1957--2000},
  year={2010}
}

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