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Poster

Bayesian Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models

Lingrui Gan · Xinming Yang · Naveen Narisetty · Feng Liang

East Exhibition Hall B, C #178

Keywords: [ Probabilistic Methods ] [ Graphical Models ] [ Optimization -> Non-Convex Optimization; Probabilistic Methods -> Bayesian Theory; Probabilistic Methods ] [ Latent Variable Mod ]


Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian group regularization method based on the spike and slab Lasso priors for jointly estimating multiple graphical models. The proposed method can be used to estimate the common sparsity structure underlying the graphical models while capturing potential heterogeneity of the precision matrices corresponding to those models. Our theoretical results show that the proposed method enjoys the optimal rate of convergence in $\ell_\infty$ norm for estimation consistency and has a strong structure recovery guarantee even when the signal strengths over different graphs are heterogeneous. Through simulation studies and an application to the capital bike-sharing network data, we demonstrate the competitive performance of our method compared to existing alternatives.

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