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Our concern is selecting the concentration matrix's nonzero coefficients for a sparse Gaussian graphical model in a high-dimensional setting. This corresponds to estimating the graph of conditional dependencies between the variables. We…

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The large bulk of work in multiple testing has focused on specifying procedures that control the false discovery rate (FDR), with relatively less attention being paid to the corresponding Type II error known as the false non-discovery rate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Max Rabinovich , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright

In multivariate statistics, the question of finding direct interactions can be formulated as a problem of network inference - or network reconstruction - for which the Gaussian graphical model (GGM) provides a canonical framework.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-11 Julien Chiquet , Mahendra Mariadassou , Stéphane Robin

This work concerns controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in networks under communication constraints. We present sample-and-forward, a flexible and communication-efficient version of the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure for multihop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Mehrdad Pournaderi , Yu Xiang

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are widely used in high-dimensional data analysis to synthesize the interaction between variables. In many applications, such as genomics or image analysis, graphical models rely on sparsity and clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Do Edmond Sanou , Christophe Ambroise , Geneviève Robin

Testing composite null hypotheses arises in various applications, such as mediation and replicability analyses. The problem becomes more challenging in high-throughput experiments where tens of thousands of features are examined…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-29 Pengfei Lyu , Xianyang Zhang , Hongyuan Cao

We apply FDR thresholding to a non-Gaussian vector whose coordinates X_i, i=1,..., n, are independent exponential with individual means $\mu_i$. The vector $\mu =(\mu_i)$ is thought to be sparse, with most coordinates 1 but a small fraction…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 David Donoho , Jiashun Jin

In high dimensional variable selection problems, statisticians often seek to design multiple testing procedures that control the False Discovery Rate (FDR), while concurrently identifying a greater number of relevant variables. Model-X…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Taejoo Ahn , Licong Lin , Song Mei

Low rank matrix recovery problems, including matrix completion and matrix sensing, appear in a broad range of applications. In this work we present GNMR -- an extremely simple iterative algorithm for low rank matrix recovery, based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Pini Zilber , Boaz Nadler

For large-scale testing with graph-associated data, we present an empirical Bayes mixture technique to score local false discovery rates. Compared to empirical Bayes procedures that ignore the graph, the proposed method gains power in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-26 TIen Vo , Vamsi Ithapu , Vikas Singh , Michael A. Newton

We consider the problem of inferring the conditional independence graph (CIG) of a sparse, high-dimensional, stationary matrix-variate Gaussian time series. All past work on high-dimensional matrix graphical models assumes that independent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-01 Jitendra K Tugnait

We consider the problem of estimating (diagonally dominant) M-matrices as precision matrices in Gaussian graphical models. These models exhibit intriguing properties, such as the existence of the maximum likelihood estimator with merely two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-12 Jiaxi Ying , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

This paper discusses several p-value-free multiple hypothesis testing methods proposed in recent years and organizes them by introducing a unified framework termed competition test. Although existing competition tests are effective in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Mingzhou Deng , Yan Fu

Studying conditional independence among many variables with few observations is a challenging task. Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) tackle this problem by encouraging sparsity in the precision matrix through $l_q$ regularization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Marcello Massimo Negri , F. Arend Torres , Volker Roth

Recovering sparse conditional independence graphs from data is a fundamental problem in machine learning with wide applications. A popular formulation of the problem is an $\ell_1$ regularized maximum likelihood estimation. Many convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Harsh Shrivastava , Xinshi Chen , Binghong Chen , Guanghui Lan , Srinvas Aluru , Han Liu , Le Song

Simultaneously performing variable selection and inference in high-dimensional models is an open challenge in statistics and machine learning. The increasing availability of vast amounts of variables requires the adoption of specific…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-02 Marco Molinari , Magne Thoresen

We consider distributed estimation of the inverse covariance matrix, also called the concentration or precision matrix, in Gaussian graphical models. Traditional centralized estimation often requires global inference of the covariance…

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This paper addresses the problem of minimizing a convex cost function under non-negativity and equality constraints, with the aim of solving the linear unmixing problem encountered in hyperspectral imagery. This problem can be formulated as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-03 Céline Theys , Henri Lantéri , Nicolas Dobigeon , Cédric Richard , Jean-Yves Tourneret , André Ferrari

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) is a popular approach to multiple testing, variable selection, and related problems of simultaneous inference. In many contemporary applications, models are not specified by discrete variables,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Mateo Díaz , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Causal mediation analysis, pleiotropy analysis, and replication analysis are three highly popular genetic study designs. Although these analyses address different scientific questions, the underlying inference problems all involve…

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