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Fast and Adaptive Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation in High Dimensions

Methodology 2016-12-23 v2 Statistics Theory Applications Computation Machine Learning Statistics Theory

Abstract

This paper proposes a new method for estimating sparse precision matrices in the high dimensional setting. It has been popular to study fast computation and adaptive procedures for this problem. We propose a novel approach, called Sparse Column-wise Inverse Operator, to address these two issues. We analyze an adaptive procedure based on cross validation, and establish its convergence rate under the Frobenius norm. The convergence rates under other matrix norms are also established. This method also enjoys the advantage of fast computation for large-scale problems, via a coordinate descent algorithm. Numerical merits are illustrated using both simulated and real datasets. In particular, it performs favorably on an HIV brain tissue dataset and an ADHD resting-state fMRI dataset.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3896,
  title  = {Fast and Adaptive Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation in High Dimensions},
  author = {Weidong Liu and Xi Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3896},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Maintext: 24 pages. Supplement: 13 pages. R package scio implementing the proposed method is available on CRAN at https://cran.r-project.org/package=scio . Published in J of Multivariate Analysis at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X14002607

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