Non-asymptotic oracle inequalities for the Lasso in high-dimensional mixture of experts

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Autores principales: Nguyen, TrungTin, Nguyen, Hien D, Chamroukhi, Faicel, McLachlan, Geoffrey J
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author Nguyen, TrungTin
Nguyen, Hien D
Chamroukhi, Faicel
McLachlan, Geoffrey J
author_facet Nguyen, TrungTin
Nguyen, Hien D
Chamroukhi, Faicel
McLachlan, Geoffrey J
contents We investigate the estimation properties of the mixture of experts (MoE) model in a high-dimensional setting, where the number of predictors is much larger than the sample size, and for which the literature is particularly lacking in theoretical results. We consider the class of softmax-gated Gaussian MoE (SGMoE) models, defined as MoE models with softmax gating functions and Gaussian experts, and focus on the theoretical properties of their $l_1$-regularized estimation via the Lasso. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the $l_1$-regularization properties of SGMoE models from a non-asymptotic perspective, under the mildest assumptions, namely the boundedness of the parameter space. We provide a lower bound on the regularization parameter of the Lasso penalty that ensures non-asymptotic theoretical control of the Kullback--Leibler loss of the Lasso estimator for SGMoE models. Finally, we carry out a simulation study to empirically validate our theoretical findings.
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spellingShingle Non-asymptotic oracle inequalities for the Lasso in high-dimensional mixture of experts
Nguyen, TrungTin
Nguyen, Hien D
Chamroukhi, Faicel
McLachlan, Geoffrey J
Statistics Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Methodology
62E17 (Primary) 62H12, 62H30 (Secondary)
We investigate the estimation properties of the mixture of experts (MoE) model in a high-dimensional setting, where the number of predictors is much larger than the sample size, and for which the literature is particularly lacking in theoretical results. We consider the class of softmax-gated Gaussian MoE (SGMoE) models, defined as MoE models with softmax gating functions and Gaussian experts, and focus on the theoretical properties of their $l_1$-regularized estimation via the Lasso. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the $l_1$-regularization properties of SGMoE models from a non-asymptotic perspective, under the mildest assumptions, namely the boundedness of the parameter space. We provide a lower bound on the regularization parameter of the Lasso penalty that ensures non-asymptotic theoretical control of the Kullback--Leibler loss of the Lasso estimator for SGMoE models. Finally, we carry out a simulation study to empirically validate our theoretical findings.
title Non-asymptotic oracle inequalities for the Lasso in high-dimensional mixture of experts
topic Statistics Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Methodology
62E17 (Primary) 62H12, 62H30 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10622