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Approximate Supermodularity Bounds for Experimental Design
Luiz Chamon · Alejandro Ribeiro

Wed Dec 06 06:30 PM -- 10:30 PM (PST) @ Pacific Ballroom #161
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This work provides performance guarantees for the greedy solution of experimental design problems. In particular, it focuses on A- and E-optimal designs, for which typical guarantees do not apply since the mean-square error and the maximum eigenvalue of the estimation error covariance matrix are not supermodular. To do so, it leverages the concept of approximate supermodularity to derive non-asymptotic worst-case suboptimality bounds for these greedy solutions. These bounds reveal that as the SNR of the experiments decreases, these cost functions behave increasingly as supermodular functions. As such, greedy A- and E-optimal designs approach (1-1/e)-optimality. These results reconcile the empirical success of greedy experimental design with the non-supermodularity of the A- and E-optimality criteria.

Keywords: Optimization · Regression
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Luiz Chamon (University of Pennsylvania)
Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania)

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