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With the growing adoption of deep learning models in different real-world domains, including computational biology, it is often necessary to understand which data features are essential for the model's decision. Despite extensive recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Prashnna K Gyawali , Xiaoxia Liu , James Zou , Zihuai He

This paper introduces a novel Knockoff-guided compressive sensing framework, referred to as \TheName{}, which enhances signal recovery by leveraging precise false discovery rate (FDR) control during the support identification phase. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Xiaochen Zhang , Haoyi Xiong

This paper proposes a model-free and data-adaptive feature screening method for ultra-high dimensional datasets. The proposed method is based on the projection correlation which measures the dependence between two random vectors. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-16 Wanjun Liu , Yuan Ke , Jingyuan Liu , Runze Li

Testing multiple hypotheses of conditional independence with provable error rate control is a fundamental problem with various applications. To infer conditional independence with family-wise error rate (FWER) control when only summary…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Catherine Xinrui Yu , Jiaqi Gu , Zhaomeng Chen , Zihuai He

An important problem in machine learning and statistics is to identify features that causally affect the outcome. This is often impossible to do from purely observational data, and a natural relaxation is to identify features that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Jaime Roquero Gimenez , Amirata Ghorbani , James Zou

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in variable selection becomes challenging when predictors are correlated, as existing methods often exclude all members of correlated groups and consequently perform poorly for prediction. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-03 Sarah Organ , Toby Kenney , Hong Gu

Model-X knockoff has garnered significant attention among various feature selection methods due to its guarantees for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Since its introduction in parametric design, knockoff techniques have evolved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hongyu Shen , Yici Yan , Zhizhen Zhao

Controlling false discovery rate (FDR) while leveraging the side information of multiple hypothesis testing is an emerging research topic in modern data science. Existing methods rely on the test-level covariates while ignoring possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-26 Lin Qiu , Nils Murrugarra-Llerena , Vítor Silva , Lin Lin , Vernon M. Chinchilli

The recently proposed fixed-X knockoff is a powerful variable selection procedure that controls the false discovery rate (FDR) in any finite-sample setting, yet its theoretical insights are difficult to show beyond Gaussian linear models.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Han Su , Panxu Yuan , Qingyang Sun , Mengxi Yi , Gaorong Li

We make some initial attempt to establish the theoretical and methodological foundation for the model-X knockoffs inference for time series data. We suggest the method of time series knockoffs inference (TSKI) by exploiting the ideas of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-03 Chien-Ming Chi , Yingying Fan , Ching-Kang Ing , Jinchi Lv

Knockoffs is a new framework for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple hypothesis testing problems involving complex statistical models. While there has been great emphasis on Type-I error control, Type-II errors have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-19 Asaf Weinstein , Rina Barber , Emmanuel Candes

We propose a unified theoretical framework for studying the robustness of the model-X knockoffs framework by investigating the asymptotic false discovery rate (FDR) control of the practically implemented approximate knockoffs procedure.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Yingying Fan , Lan Gao , Jinchi Lv , Xiaocong Xu

Controlling False Discovery Rate (FDR) while leveraging the side information of multiple hypothesis testing is an emerging research topic in modern data science. Existing methods rely on the test-level covariates while ignoring metrics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-10 Lin Qiu , Nils Murrugarra-Llerena , Vítor Silva , Lin Lin , Vernon M. Chinchilli

We consider the problem of assessing the importance of multiple variables or factors from a dataset when side information is available. In principle, using side information can allow the statistician to pay attention to variables with a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-23 Zhimei Ren , Emmanuel Candès

Researchers in biomedical studies often work with samples that are not selected uniformly at random from the population of interest, a major example being a case-control study. While these designs are motivated by specific scientific…

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

A concept-based classifier can explain the decision process of a deep learning model by human-understandable concepts in image classification problems. However, sometimes concept-based explanations may cause false positives, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Kaiwen Xu , Kazuto Fukuchi , Youhei Akimoto , Jun Sakuma

We extend the knockoffs method for selecting predictors to clustered data (cross-sectional or repeated measures). In the setting of clustered data, variable selection is complex because some predictors are measured at the observation level…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Silvia Bacci , Leonardo Grilli , Carla Rampichini

Feature selection is central to contemporary high-dimensional data analysis. Grouping structure among features arises naturally in various scientific problems. Many methods have been proposed to incorporate the grouping structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Guangyu Zhu , Tingting Zhao

False discovery rate (FDR) is a cornerstone of modern multiple testing. However, it often fails to guarantee the reliability of "marginal" discoveries that lie at the boundary of the rejection set, which are often crucial in high-precision…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Yifan Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Changliang Zou , Haojie Ren