TY - GEN
T1 - Graph-valued regression
AU - Liu, Han
AU - Chen, Xi
AU - Lafferty, John
AU - Wasserman, Larry
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - Undirected graphical models encode in a graph G the dependency structure of a random vector Y. In many applications, it is of interest to model Y given another random vector X as input. We refer to the problem of estimating the graphG(x) of Y conditioned on X = x as "graph-valued regression". In this paper, we propose a semiparametric method for estimating G(x) that builds a tree on the X space just as in CART (classification and regression trees), but at each leaf of the tree estimates a graph. We call the method "Graph-optimized CART", or Go-CART.We study the theoretical properties of Go-CART using dyadic partitioning trees, establishing oracle inequalities on risk minimization and tree partition consistency. We also demonstrate the application of Go-CART to a meteorological dataset, showing how graph-valued regression can provide a useful tool for analyzing complex data.
AB - Undirected graphical models encode in a graph G the dependency structure of a random vector Y. In many applications, it is of interest to model Y given another random vector X as input. We refer to the problem of estimating the graphG(x) of Y conditioned on X = x as "graph-valued regression". In this paper, we propose a semiparametric method for estimating G(x) that builds a tree on the X space just as in CART (classification and regression trees), but at each leaf of the tree estimates a graph. We call the method "Graph-optimized CART", or Go-CART.We study the theoretical properties of Go-CART using dyadic partitioning trees, establishing oracle inequalities on risk minimization and tree partition consistency. We also demonstrate the application of Go-CART to a meteorological dataset, showing how graph-valued regression can provide a useful tool for analyzing complex data.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860614031
SN - 9781617823800
T3 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010
BT - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23
T2 - 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010
Y2 - 6 December 2010 through 9 December 2010
ER -