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Learning Additive Exponential Family Graphical Models via $\ell_{2,1}$-norm Regularized M-Estimation
Xiaotong Yuan · Ping Li · Tong Zhang · Qingshan Liu · Guangcan Liu

Tue Dec 06 09:00 AM -- 12:30 PM (PST) @ Area 5+6+7+8 #133
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We investigate a subclass of exponential family graphical models of which the sufficient statistics are defined by arbitrary additive forms. We propose two $\ell_{2,1}$-norm regularized maximum likelihood estimators to learn the model parameters from i.i.d. samples. The first one is a joint MLE estimator which estimates all the parameters simultaneously. The second one is a node-wise conditional MLE estimator which estimates the parameters for each node individually. For both estimators, statistical analysis shows that under mild conditions the extra flexibility gained by the additive exponential family models comes at almost no cost of statistical efficiency. A Monte-Carlo approximation method is developed to efficiently optimize the proposed estimators. The advantages of our estimators over Gaussian graphical models and Nonparanormal estimators are demonstrated on synthetic and real data sets.
Keywords: Sparsity and Feature Selection · Graphical Models

Author Information

Xiaotong Yuan (Nanjing University of Informat)
Ping Li (Baidu Research USA)
Tong Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Qingshan Liu
Guangcan Liu (NUIST)

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