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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

Controlled variable selection is an important analytical step in various scientific fields, such as brain imaging or genomics. In these high-dimensional data settings, considering too many variables leads to poor models and high costs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Alexandre Blain , Bertrand Thirion , Olivier Grisel , Pierre Neuvial

We propose a new method to learn the structure of a Gaussian graphical model with finite sample false discovery rate control. Our method builds on the knockoff framework of Barber and Cand\`{e}s for linear models. We extend their approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 Jinzhou Li , Marloes H. Maathuis

High-dimensional variable selection has emerged as one of the prevailing statistical challenges in the big data revolution. Many variable selection methods have been adapted for identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-21 Justin J. Van Ee , Diana Gamba , Jesse R. Lasky , Megan L. Vahsen , Mevin B. Hooten

Model-X knockoffs is a wrapper that transforms essentially any feature importance measure into a variable selection algorithm, which discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the expected fraction of false positives. A frequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-12 Stephen Bates , Emmanuel Candès , Lucas Janson , Wenshuo Wang

Model-X knockoffs is a general procedure that can leverage any feature importance measure to produce a variable selection algorithm, which discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the number or fraction of false positives.…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-07 Zhimei Ren , Yuting Wei , Emmanuel Candès

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) often find association signals between many genetic variants and traits of interest in a genomic region. Functional annotations of these variants provide valuable prior information that helps…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-07 Xiangyu Zhang , Lijun Wang , Changjun Li , Chen Lin , Hongyu Zhao

The fixed-X knockoff filter is a flexible framework for variable selection with false discovery rate (FDR) control in linear models with arbitrary design matrices (of full column rank) and it allows for finite-sample selective inference via…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Mehrdad Pournaderi , Yu Xiang

Few real-world systems are amenable to truly Bayesian filtering; nonlinearities and non-Gaussian noises can wreak havoc on filters that rely on linearization and Gaussian uncertainty approximations. This article presents the Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Kristen Michaelson , Andrey A. Popov , Renato Zanetti

In many applications, we need to study a linear regression model that consists of a response variable and a large number of potential explanatory variables and determine which variables are truly associated with the response. In 2015,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-23 Jiajie Chen , Anthony Hou , Thomas Y. Hou

Knockoffs are a popular statistical framework that addresses the challenging problem of conditional variable selection in high-dimensional settings with statistical control. Such statistical control is essential for the reliability of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-30 Alexandre Blain , Angel Reyero Lobo , Julia Linhart , Bertrand Thirion , Pierre Neuvial

Controlled feature selection aims to discover the features a response depends on while limiting the false discovery rate (FDR) to a predefined level. Recently, multiple deep-learning-based methods have been proposed to perform controlled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-24 Derek Hansen , Brian Manzo , Jeffrey Regier

Model-X knockoffs allows analysts to perform feature selection using almost any machine learning algorithm while still provably controlling the expected proportion of false discoveries. To apply model-X knockoffs, one must construct…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-30 Asher Spector , Lucas Janson

In many real-world scenarios where data is high dimensional, test time acquisition of features is a non-trivial task due to costs associated with feature acquisition and evaluating feature value. The need for highly confident models with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Orpaz Goldstein , Mohammad Kachuee , Kimmo Karkkainen , Majid Sarrafzadeh

A new statistical procedure (Model-X \cite{candes2018}) has provided a way to identify important factors using any supervised learning method controlling for FDR. This line of research has shown great potential to expand the horizon of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-01 Ying Liu , Cheng Zheng

Advances in digital sensors, digital data storage and communications have resulted in systems being capable of accumulating large collections of data. In the light of dealing with the challenges that massive data present, this work proposes…

Computation · Statistics 2015-12-09 Allan De Freitas , François Septier , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Modern scientific studies often require the identification of a subset of relevant explanatory variables, in the attempt to understand an interesting phenomenon. Several statistical methods have been developed to automate this task, but…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-14 Matteo Sesia , Chiara Sabatti , Emmanuel J. Candès

Variable selection plays a crucial role in enhancing modeling effectiveness across diverse fields, addressing the challenges posed by high-dimensional datasets of correlated variables. This work introduces a novel approach namely Knockoff…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-31 Xiaochen Zhang , Yunfeng Cai , Haoyi Xiong

Selecting important features in high-dimensional survival analysis is critical for identifying confirmatory biomarkers while maintaining rigorous error control. In this paper, we propose a derandomized knockoffs procedure for Cox regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-15 Rui Liu , Nan Sun

Generative Bayesian Filtering (GBF) provides a powerful and flexible framework for performing posterior inference in complex nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space models. Our approach extends Generative Bayesian Computation (GBC) to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-07 Edoardo Marcelli , Sean O'Hagan , Veronika Rockova