Quadratic Sparse Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation Method for Massive Variables

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Zhang, J
Wang, M
Li, Q
Wang, S
Chang, X
Wang, B
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2020
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We consider the problem of estimating a sparse Gaussian Graphical Model with a special graph topological structure and more than a million variables. Most previous scalable estimators still contain expensive calculation steps (e.g., matrix inversion or Hessian matrix calculation) and become infeasible in high-dimensional scenarios, where p (number of variables) is larger than n (number of samples). To overcome this challenge, we propose a novel method, called Fast and Scalable Inverse Covariance Estimator by Thresholding (FST). FST first obtains a graph structure by applying a generalized threshold to the sample covariance matrix. Then, it solves multiple block-wise subproblems via element-wise thresholding. By using matrix thresholding instead of matrix inversion as the computational bottleneck, FST reduces its computational complexity to a much lower order of magnitude (O(p2)). We show that FST obtains the same sharp convergence rate O(√(log max{p, n}/n) as other state-of-the-art methods. We validate the method empirically, on multiple simulated datasets and one real-world dataset, and show that FST is two times faster than the four baselines while achieving a lower error rate under both Frobenius-norm and max-norm.

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Zhang, J; Wang, M; Li, Q; Wang, S; Chang, X; Wang, B, Quadratic Sparse Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation Method for Massive Variables, Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020, 2021-January, pp. 2964-2972