Feature selection in high-dimensional classification

Mladen Kolar, Han Liu

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Abstract

High-dimensional discriminant analysis is of fundamental importance in multivariate statistics. Existing theoretical results sharply characterize different procedures, providing sharp convergence results for the classification risk, as well as the ℓ2 convergence results to the discriminative rule. However, sharp theoretical results for the problem of variable selection have not been established, even though model interpretation is of importance in many scientific domains. In this paper, we bridge this gap by providing sharp sufficient conditions for consistent variable selection using the ROAD estimator (Fan et al., 2010). Our results provide novel theoretical insights for the ROAD estimator. Sufficient conditions are complemented by the necessary information theoretic limits on variable selection in high-dimensional discriminant analysis. This complementary result also establishes optimality of the ROAD estimator for a certain family of problems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages329-337
Number of pages9
StatePublished - 2013
Event30th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2013 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: Jun 16 2013Jun 21 2013

Other

Other30th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period6/16/136/21/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Sociology and Political Science

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