Top pick: Marchenko-Pastur + RIE (pyRMT (BSD-style)). Fills the gap: Matrix-level orthogonality — which the production baseline (Pearson + Spearman + h_norm + Tier-2 MI-vs-target) cannot detect.
P1 metric — picked for Batch A, the recommended first parallel sweep.
Metric: Marchenko-Pastur eigenvalue clipping ·
FOSS: pyRMT (BSD-style) ·
Effort: ~30 min ·
Gap closed: Matrix-level / panel-wide orthogonality
→ See the full priority list — 30 metrics ranked P1 → P4 across 6 categories.
Lane = how usable the metric is today. Top lane = production-baseline duplicates (Pearson, Spearman). Below = permissive FOSS / GPL / unmaintained / code-released-but-not-packaged / no-FOSS. Per-circle text = first 3 letters of language (Pyt / R / Jav).
| Metric | Priority | Library | License | Lang | Maint | Complexity | Param-free? | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bai-Ng / Onatski factor selection | — | dfms | GPL | R | ✅ | O(N^3) | yes | ↗ |
| ICA (FastICA/JADE/Infomax) — R | P3 | ica | GPL | R | ✅ | varies | ? | ↗ |
| Ledoit-Wolf quadratic / analytical NLS | P3 | nlshrink | GPL | R | ✅ | O(N^3) | no | ↗ |
| Robust PCA (Candes 2011) | P3 | rsvd / pyrpca | GPL / MIT | R / Python | ✅ | O(NT min(N,T)) | yes | ↗ |
| Tracy-Widom edge test | P2 | RMTstat | GPL | R | ✅ | O(N^3) | no | ↗ |
| FastICA | P3 | sklearn.decomposition.FastICA | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | O(NTK iter) | yes | ↗ |
| Graphical Lasso | — | sklearn.covariance.GraphicalLasso | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | O(N^3) per iter | yes | ↗ |
| ICA portfolio optimization | — | FastICA (sklearn) + custom opt | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | ? | ↗ | |
| Ledoit-Wolf linear shrinkage | — | sklearn.covariance.LedoitWolf | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | O(N^2) | no | ↗ |
| Marchenko-Pastur eigenvalue clipping | P1 | pyRMT | BSD-style | Python | ✅ | O(N^3) | no | ↗ |
| NMF | P3 | sklearn.decomposition.NMF | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | O(NTK iter) | yes | ↗ |
| PCA | — | sklearn.decomposition.PCA | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | O(min(N^2 T, N T^2)) | yes | ↗ |
| Rotationally Invariant Estimator (RIE) | P2 | pyRMT | BSD-style | Python | ✅ | O(N^3) | no | ↗ |
| Sparse PCA | P3 | sklearn.decomposition.SparsePCA | Apache-2 | Python | ✅ | O(N^2 T) L1 | yes | ↗ |
| VIF | — | statsmodels.stats.outliers_influence.variance_inflation_factor | BSD-3 | Python | ✅ | O(N^2 T) per col | yes | ↗ |