Statistical inference can be computationally prohibitive in ultrahigh-dimensional linear models. Correlation-based variable screening, in which one leverages marginal correlations for removal of irrelevant variables from the model prior to statistical inference, can be used to overcome this challenge. Prior works on co…
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New ML method detects incomplete bid-rigging cartels.
problem Detecting incomplete bid-rigging cartels in competitive bidding.
method Combines statistical screens with machine learning.
result Algorithm outperforms existing methods in incomplete cartels.
A new method reduces feature screening cost from to .
problem Eliminating non-informative features in ultrahigh-dimensional datasets.
method Adaptive subsampling method based on multi-armed bandit problem.
result The proposed method retains sure screening property and comparable performance to SIS.
High throughput screening of compounds (chemicals) is an essential part of drug discovery [7], involving thousands to millions of compounds, with the purpose of identifying candidate hits. Most statistical tools, including the industry standard B-score method, work on individual compound plates and do not exploit cross…
Ultrahigh-dimensional variable selection plays an increasingly important role in contemporary scientific discoveries and statistical research. Among others, Fan and Lv [J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Stat. Methodol. 70 (2008) 849-911] propose an independent screening framework by ranking the marginal correlations. They showed…
Paper proposes a method to prune neural networks, reducing storage and computation costs.
problem Reduction of storage and computational costs for deep neural networks.
method Statistical analysis of component significance using F-statistic-based screening technique.
result Pruned models are highly competitive with state-of-the-art approaches.
We study the problem of variable selection in convex nonparametric regression. Under the assumption that the true regression function is convex and sparse, we develop a screening procedure to select a subset of variables that contains the relevant variables. Our approach is a two-stage quadratic programming method that…
Variable selection is a challenging issue in statistical applications when the number of predictors far exceeds the number of observations . In this ultra-high dimensional setting, the sure independence screening (SIS) procedure was introduced to significantly reduce the dimensionality by preserving the true mod…
The paper introduces localized conformal p-values for conditional testing problems.
problem Addressing conditional testing problems in statistics.
method Localized conformal p-values defined by inverting prediction intervals.
result Proposes procedures for conditional outlier detection and label screening with FDR and FWER control.
Lightlike hypersurfaces of a statistical manifold are studied. It is shown that a lightlike hypersurface of a statistical manifold is not a statistical manifold with respect to the induced connections, but the screen distribution has a canonical statistical structure. Some relations between induced geometric objects wi…
We develop a framework for post model selection inference, via marginal screening, in linear regression. At the core of this framework is a result that characterizes the exact distribution of linear functions of the response , conditional on the model being selected (``condition on selection" framework). This allows…
Understanding the phenotypic drug response on cancer cell lines plays a vital rule in anti-cancer drug discovery and re-purposing. The Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) database provides open data for researchers in phenotypic screening to test their models and methods. Previously, most research in these ar…
Statistical depth metrics help identify risky power grid scenarios.
problem Identifying extreme scenarios for risk mitigation in power grid planning.
method Functional depth metrics for sub-selecting outlying scenarios.
result The proposed approach effectively identifies risky scenarios for operational risk mitigation.
We introduce a computationally effective algorithm for a linear model selection consisting of three steps: screening--ordering--selection (SOS). Screening of predictors is based on the thresholded Lasso that is l_1 penalized least squares. The screened predictors are then fitted using least squares (LS) and ordered wit…
This paper explores the following question: what kind of statistical guarantees can be given when doing variable selection in high-dimensional models? In particular, we look at the error rates and power of some multi-stage regression methods. In the first stage we fit a set of candidate models. In the second stage we s…
Paper introduces slow kill for efficient large-scale variable screening.
problem Challenges in variable selection and parameter estimation for big data.
method Nonconvex constrained optimization, adaptive \(\ell_2\)-shrinkage, and increasing learning rates.
result Slow kill outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in various situations.
RaSE screens variables via random subspaces, identifying joint effects.
problem Missing joint effects of predictors in ultra-high dimensional data.
method Random Subspace Ensemble (RaSE) framework combining subspace evaluation criteria.
result RaSE identifies signals with no marginal effect or high-order interactions.
Study finds AI can predict diverse cardiac and non-cardiac diagnoses from a single ECG.
problem Narrow focus of ECG analysis models for diverse medical conditions.
method Exploratory study using a single AI model to predict multiple ICD codes.
result Model achieved AUROC scores > 0.8 for 253 cardiac and 172 non-cardiac diagnoses.
Deep Feature Screening: Feature Selection for Ultra High-Dimensional Data via Deep Neural Networksstat.ML
DeepFS uses deep neural networks to select significant features in ultra high-dimensional data.
problem Challenges in traditional feature selection methods for high-dimensional, low-sample-size data.
method Two-step nonparametric approach combining deep neural networks and feature screening.
result DeepFS effectively identifies significant features with high precision for ultra high-dimensional data.
Sparse learning has recently received increasing attention in many areas including machine learning, statistics, and applied mathematics. The mixed-norm regularization based on the l1q norm with q>1 is attractive in many applications of regression and classification in that it facilitates group sparsity in the model. T…
Optimal structure and parameter learning of Ising modelscond-mat.stat-mech
Reconstruction of structure and parameters of an Ising model from binary samples is a problem of practical importance in a variety of disciplines, ranging from statistical physics and computational biology to image processing and machine learning. The focus of the research community shifted towards developing universal…
The problem of learning a sparse model is conceptually interpreted as the process of identifying active features/samples and then optimizing the model over them. Recently introduced safe screening allows us to identify a part of non-active features/samples. So far, safe screening has been individually studied either fo…
New Bayesian optimization models for efficient material screening.
problem Efficiently screening materials with expensive and cheap tests.
method Flexible multi-test Bayesian optimization models with complex relationships.
result Demonstrated power on synthetic and real data.
This paper treats the problem of screening for variables with high correlations in high dimensional data in which there can be many fewer samples than variables. We focus on threshold-based correlation screening methods for three related applications: screening for variables with large correlations within a single trea…
New screening rules improve lasso model fitting efficiency.
problem Efficiently solving high-dimensional lasso problems.
method Look-ahead screening rules to discard predictors.
result Look-ahead screening rules outperform existing methods.
A new screening rule 'dynamic Sasvi' improves sparse optimization speed.
problem Sparse optimization problem identification.
method Flexible framework based on Fenchel-Rockafellar duality for norm-regularized least squares.
result Dynamic Sasvi can eliminate more features and increase solver speed.
In the present paper, we introduce screen transversal lightlike submanifolds of metallic semi-Riemannian manifolds with its subclasses, namely screen transversal anti-invariant, radical screen transversal and isotropic screen transversal lightlike submanifolds, and give an example. We show that there do not exist co-is…
A new screening rule improves SLOPE efficiency for high-dimensional data.
problem Efficiently selecting relevant predictors in high-dimensional data.
method Developed a screening rule for SLOPE based on its subdifferential.
result The screening rule improves SLOPE's performance significantly in high-dimensional settings.
We consider the problem of learning the underlying graph of an unknown Ising model on p spins from a collection of i.i.d. samples generated from the model. We suggest a new estimator that is computationally efficient and requires a number of samples that is near-optimal with respect to previously established informatio…
Current statistical inference problems in areas like astronomy, genomics, and marketing routinely involve the simultaneous testing of thousands -- even millions -- of null hypotheses. For high-dimensional multivariate distributions, these hypotheses may concern a wide range of parameters, with complex and unknown depen…
New AI platform screens portfolios for desirable firms and news.
problem Optimizing portfolio selection with AI.
method Two LLM agents screen for firm fundamentals and news sentiment. Agents deliberate to generate buy/sell signals. High-dimensional estimation determines optimal weights.
result Screened portfolio's Sharpe ratio consistently estimates target, superior to baseline and conventional approaches.
A variable screening procedure via correlation learning was proposed Fan and Lv (2008) to reduce dimensionality in sparse ultra-high dimensional models. Even when the true model is linear, the marginal regression can be highly nonlinear. To address this issue, we further extend the correlation learning to marginal nonp…
Recent computational strategies based on screening tests have been proposed to accelerate algorithms addressing penalized sparse regression problems such as the Lasso. Such approaches build upon the idea that it is worth dedicating some small computational effort to locate inactive atoms and remove them from the dictio…
A new screening method for high-dimensional data reduces computational cost.
problem Challenges in variable selection for ultrahigh-dimensional linear regression.
method Ordering absolute sample ridge partial correlations to screen variables.
result The method provides sure screening property without strong assumptions.
We study safe screening for metric learning. Distance metric learning can optimize a metric over a set of triplets, each one of which is defined by a pair of same class instances and an instance in a different class. However, the number of possible triplets is quite huge even for a small dataset. Our safe triplet scree…
In this paper we develop the notion of screen isoparametric hypersurface for null hypersurfaces of Robertson-Walker spacetimes. Using this formalism we derive Cartan identities for the screen principal curvatures of null screen hypersurfaces in Lorentzian space forms and provide a local characterization of such hypersu…
Regression Enrichment Surfaces: a Simple Analysis Technique for Virtual Drug Screening Modelsq-bio.QM
A new method for virtual drug screening detects top treatments.
problem Understanding model performance in virtual drug screening tasks.
method Regression Enrichment Surfaces (RES) method.
result RES detects more top-performing treatments than existing methods.
The Hessian Screening Rulestat.ML
A new screening rule improves lasso solving speed.
problem Efficiently solving lasso problems with high correlation.
method Uses second-order information from the Hessian to screen predictors.
result Outperforms alternatives on simulated and real data.
Recently, to solve large-scale lasso and group lasso problems, screening rules have been developed, the goal of which is to reduce the problem size by efficiently discarding zero coefficients using simple rules independently of the others. However, screening for overlapping group lasso remains an open challenge because…
The main purpose of the present paper is to study the geometry of screen transversal lightlike submanifolds and radical screen transversal lightlike submanifolds and screen transversal anti-invariant lightlike submanifolds of Golden Semi-Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the geometry of distributions and obtain nece…
Independent screening for single-index hazard rate models with ultra-high dimensional featuresstat.ML
In data sets with many more features than observations, independent screening based on all univariate regression models leads to a computationally convenient variable selection method. Recent efforts have shown that in the case of generalized linear models, independent screening may suffice to capture all relevant feat…
Efficiently allocate budgets for LLM-assisted virtual screening to reduce costs.
problem Reducing the cost of evaluating alternatives in large-scale screening tasks.
method Propose a top- greedy evaluation mechanism and the EFG- algorithm for efficient budget allocation.
result Prove that EFG- is both sample-optimal and consistent in large-scale virtual screening.
Deep learning predicts breast cancer with high accuracy from patient data.
problem Early detection of breast cancer from patient data.
method Feature selection and k-fold Monte Carlo cross-validation using deep learning.
result Deep learning model effectively distinguishes between cancer and healthy patients.
New rules reduce SLOPE model fitting time by screening out irrelevant variables.
problem Expensive tuning of regularization parameter in penalized regression models.
method Strong screening rules for group-based SLOPE models.
result Significant acceleration of fitting process for Group SLOPE and sparse-group SLOPE.
Better subset regressionstat.ME
To find efficient screening methods for high dimensional linear regression models, this paper studies the relationship between model fitting and screening performance. Under a sparsity assumption, we show that a subset that includes the true submodel always yields smaller residual sum of squares (i.e., has better model…
Variable screening is a fast dimension reduction technique for assisting high dimensional feature selection. As a preselection method, it selects a moderate size subset of candidate variables for further refining via feature selection to produce the final model. The performance of variable screening depends on both com…
This paper introduces LR-FFS for robust feature screening in federated learning under label shift.
problem Label shift challenges in federated learning for high-dimensional classification.
method Unified feature screening framework, label-shift robust federated feature screening (LR-FFS), federated estimation procedure.
result LR-FFS outperforms existing methods in diverse client environments with varying class distributions, sample sizes, and missing data.
Robust support vector machine (RSVM) has been shown to perform remarkably well to improve the generalization performance of support vector machine under the noisy environment. Unfortunately, in order to handle the non-convexity induced by ramp loss in RSVM, existing RSVM solvers often adopt the DC programming framework…