Title
ET-Lasso: A New Efficient Tuning of Lasso-type Regularization for High-Dimensional Data.
Abstract
The $L_1 $ regularization (Lasso) has proven to be a versatile tool to select relevant features and estimate the model coefficients simultaneously and has been widely used in many research areas such as genomes studies, finance, and biomedical imaging. Despite its popularity, it is very challenging to guarantee the feature selection consistency of Lasso especially when the dimension of the data is huge. One way to improve the feature selection consistency is to select an ideal tuning parameter. Traditional tuning criteria mainly focus on minimizing the estimated prediction error or maximizing the posterior model probability, such as cross-validation and BIC, which may either be time-consuming or fail to control the false discovery rate (FDR) when the number of features is extremely large. The other way is to introduce pseudo-features to learn the importance of the original ones. Recently, the Knockoff filter is proposed to control the FDR when performing feature selection. However, its performance is sensitive to the choice of the expected FDR threshold. Motivated by these ideas, we propose a new method using pseudo-features to obtain an ideal tuning parameter. In particular, we present the E fficient T uning of Lasso (ET-Lasso ) to separate active and inactive features by adding permuted features as pseudo-features in linear models. The pseudo-features are constructed to be inactive by nature, which can be used to obtain a cutoff to select the tuning parameter that separates active and inactive features. Experimental studies on both simulations and real-world data applications are provided to show that ET-Lasso can effectively and efficiently select active features under a wide range of scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3292500.3330910
KDD
Keywords
Field
DocType
automatic tuning parameter selection, feature selection, high-dimensional data, lasso
Mean squared prediction error,Clustering high-dimensional data,False discovery rate,Feature selection,Linear model,Cutoff,Lasso (statistics),Algorithm,Regularization (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Mathematics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6201-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Songshan Yang101.01
Jiawei Wen201.01
Xiang Zhan322.14
Daniel Kifer4150986.63