Abstract:
Undirected graphical models encode in a graph the dependency structure of a random vector . In many applications, it is of interest to model given another random vector as input. We refer to the problem of estimating the graph of conditioned on as graph-valued regression''. In this paper, we propose a semiparametric method for estimating that builds a tree on the 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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