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The knockoff filter is a powerful tool for controlled variable selection with false discovery rate (FDR) control. In this paper, we leverage e-values to allow the nominal FDR level to be switched post-hoc, after looking at the data and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-20 Lasse Fischer , Konstantinos Sechidis

The traditional framework for feature selection treats all features as costing the same amount. However, in reality, a scientist often has considerable discretion regarding which variables to measure, and the decision involves a tradeoff…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-14 Guo Yu , Daniela Witten , Jacob Bien

We address challenges in variable selection with highly correlated data that are frequently present in finance, economics, but also in complex natural systems as e.g. weather. We develop a robustified version of the knockoff framework,…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-06-14 Konstantin Görgen , Abdolreza Nazemi , Melanie Schienle

In this article, we propose a novel strategy for conducting variable selection without prior model topology knowledge using the knockoff method with boosted tree models. Our method is inspired by the original knockoff method, where the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-24 Tao Jiang , Yuanyuan Li , Alison A. Motsinger-Reif

Although there is a huge literature on feature selection for the Cox model, none of the existing approaches can control the false discovery rate (FDR) unless the sample size tends to infinity. In addition, there is no formal power analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-02 Daoji Li , Jinzhao Yu , Hui Zhao

The false discovery rate (FDR)---the expected fraction of spurious discoveries among all the discoveries---provides a popular statistical assessment of the reproducibility of scientific studies in various disciplines. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-10 Weijie Su , Junyang Qian , Linxi Liu

Knockoff variable selection is a powerful framework that creates synthetic knockoff variables to mirror the correlation structure of the observed features, enabling principled control of the false discovery rate in variable selection.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Evan Mason , Zhe Fei

We present a novel method for controlling the $k$-familywise error rate ($k$-FWER) in the linear regression setting using the knockoffs framework first introduced by Barber and Cand\`es. Our procedure, which we also refer to as knockoffs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-10 Lucas Janson , Weijie Su

We consider the variable selection problem, which seeks to identify important variables influencing a response $Y$ out of many candidate features $X_1, \ldots, X_p$. We wish to do so while offering finite-sample guarantees about the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-12 Rina Foygel Barber , Emmanuel J. Candès , Richard J. Samworth

The goal of feature selection is to identify important features that are relevant to explain an outcome variable. Most of the work in this domain has focused on identifying globally relevant features, which are features that are related to…

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

We apply the knockoff procedure to factor selection in finance. By building fake but realistic factors, this procedure makes it possible to control the fraction of false discovery in a given set of factors. To show its versatility, we apply…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-07 Damien Challet , Christian Bongiorno , Guillaume Pelletier

Identifying variants that carry substantial information on the trait of interest remains a core topic in genetic studies. In analyzing the EADB-UKBB dataset to identify genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), however, we…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-04 Jiaqi Gu , Zhaomeng Chen , Zihuai He

The knockoff filter of Barber and Candes (arXiv:1404.5609) is a flexible framework for multiple testing in supervised learning models, based on introducing synthetic predictor variables to control the false discovery rate (FDR). Using the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-26 Yixiang Luo , William Fithian , Lihua Lei

The knockoffs is a recently proposed powerful framework that effectively controls the false discovery rate (FDR) for variable selection. However, none of the existing knockoff solutions are directly suited to handle multivariate or…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-28 Xinghao Qiao , Mingya Long , Qizhai Li

The knockoff filter introduced by Barber and Cand\`es 2016 is an elegant framework for controlling the false discovery rate in variable selection. While empirical results indicate that this methodology is not too conservative, there is no…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Jingbo Liu , Philippe Rigollet

Feature selection prepares the AI-readiness of data by eliminating redundant features. Prior research falls into two primary categories: i) Supervised Feature Selection, which identifies the optimal feature subset based on their relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyuan Wang , Dongjie Wang , Wangyang Ying , Rui Xie , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

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

Continuous improvement in medical imaging techniques allows the acquisition of higher-resolution images. When these are used in a predictive setting, a greater number of explanatory variables are potentially related to the dependent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Tuan-Binh Nguyen , Jérôme-Alexis Chevalier , Bertrand Thirion

The inverse problem of determining parameters in a model by comparing some output of the model with observations is addressed. This is a description for what hat to be done to use the Gauss-Markov-Kalman filter for the Bayesian estimation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Hermann G. Matthies , Alexander Litvinenko , Bojana V. Rosic , Elmar Zander

We describe a series of algorithms that efficiently implement Gaussian model-X knockoffs to control the false discovery rate on large scale feature selection problems. Identifying the knockoff distribution requires solving a large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Armin Askari , Quentin Rebjock , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui