Title
A Comparison of Hamming Errors of Representative Variable Selection Methods
Abstract
Lasso is a celebrated method for variable selection in linear models, but it faces challenges when the variables are moderately or strongly correlated. This motivates alternative approaches such as using a non-convex penalty, adding a ridge regularization, or conducting a post-Lasso thresholding. In this paper, we compare Lasso with 5 other methods: Elastic net, SCAD, forward selection, thresholded Lasso, and forward backward selection. We measure their performances theoretically by the expected Hamming error, assuming that the regression coefficients are iid drawn from a two-point mixture and that the Gram matrix is block-wise diagonal. By deriving the rates of convergence of Hamming errors and the phase diagrams, we obtain useful conclusions about the pros and cons of different methods.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2022
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Lasso,Hamming error,phase diagram,rare and weak signals,elastic net,SCAD,thresholded Lasso,forward selection,forward backward selection
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022)
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zheng Tracy Ke121.37
Longlin Wang200.34