Table 2.

Run time (in seconds [s]) for latent correlation estimation on biological data.

	latent correlation			SPRING on QMP
	QMP	AGP	TCGA-BRCA
ORG	59.63†	3459.05§	2039.52§	1810.39§
MLBD	0.97*	320.56†	245.13†	68.06§
Kendall	0.94*	318.09†	200.27†

^*: median value over 100 repetitions and

^†: median value over 10 repetitions, and

^§: one time result.