Ultra-high Dimensional Multiple Output Learning With Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit: A Sure Screening Approach

Mladen Kolar; Eric P. Xing

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Ultra-high Dimensional Multiple Output Learning With Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit: A Sure Screening Approach

Mladen Kolar·Eric P. Xing

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Abstract

We propose a novel application of the Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (S-OMP) procedure for sparsistant variable selection in ultra-high dimensional multi-task regression problems. Screening of variables, as introduced in \cite{fan08sis}, is an efficient and highly scalable way to remove many irrelevant variables from the set of all variables, while retaining all the relevant variables. S-OMP can be applied to problems with hundreds of thousands of variables and once the number of variables is reduced to a manageable size, a more computationally demanding procedure can be used to identify the relevant variables for each of the regression outputs. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to utilize relatedness of multiple outputs to perform fast screening of relevant variables. As our main theoretical contribution, we prove that, asymptotically, S-OMP is guaranteed to reduce an ultra-high number of variables to below the sample size without losing true relevant variables. We also provide formal evidence that a modified Bayesian information criterion (BIC) can be used to efficiently determine the number of iterations in S-OMP. We further provide empirical evidence on the benefit of variable selection using multiple regression outputs jointly, as opposed to performing variable selection for each output separately. The finite sample performance of S-OMP is demonstrated on extensive simulation studies, and on a genetic association mapping problem. $Keywords$ Adaptive Lasso; Greedy forward regression; Orthogonal matching pursuit; Multi-output regression; Multi-task learning; Simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit; Sure screening; Variable selection

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Mladen Kolar, Eric P. Xing. 2010-12-17. Ultra-high Dimensional Multiple Output Learning With Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit: A Sure Screening Approach. https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3880

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