Title
On Learning High Dimensional Structured Single Index Models
Abstract
Single Index Models (SIMs) are simple yet flexible semi-parametric models for machine learning, where the response variable is modeled as a monotonic function of a linear combination of features. Estimation in this context requires learning both the feature weights and the nonlinear function that relates features to observations. While methods have been described to learn SIMs in the low dimensional regime, a method that can efficiently learn SIMs in high dimensions, and under general structural assumptions, has not been forthcoming. In this paper, we propose computationally efficient algorithms for SIM inference in high dimensions with structural constraints. Our general approach specializes to sparsity, group sparsity, and low-rank assumptions among others. Experiments show that the proposed method enjoys superior predictive performance when compared to generalized linear models, and achieves results comparable to or better than single layer feedforward neural networks with significantly less computational cost.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
THIRTY-FIRST AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Monotonic function,Linear combination,Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Regression,Inference,Generalized linear model,Regularization (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Mathematics,Scalability
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ravi Ganti1233.52
Nikhil S. Rao217815.75
Laura Balzano3193.43
Rebecca M. Willett465563.51
Robert Nowak57309672.50