Title
Topological regularization with information filtering networks
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel methodology to perform topological regularization in multivariate probabilistic modeling by using sparse, complex, networks which represent the system’s dependency structure and are called information filtering networks (IFN). This methodology can be directly applied to covariance selection problem providing an instrument for sparse probabilistic modeling with both linear and non-linear multivariate probability distributions such as the elliptical and generalized hyperbolic families. It can also be directly implemented for topological regularization of multicollinear regression. In this paper, I describe in detail an application to sparse modeling with multivariate Student-t. A specific expectation–maximization likelihood maximization procedure over a sparse chordal network representation is proposed for this sparse Student-t case. Examples with real data from stock prices log-returns and from artificially generated data demonstrate applicability, performances, robustness and potentials of this methodology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.ins.2022.06.007
Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Topological regularization,Information filtering networks,Complex systems,Covariance selection,Sparse inverse covariance,Chow-Liu Trees,Sparse expectation-maximization,IFN regression
Journal
608
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0020-0255
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomaso Aste15711.62