Learning extremal graphical structures in high dimensions

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Main Authors: Engelke, Sebastian, Lalancette, Michaël, Volgushev, Stanislav
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author Engelke, Sebastian
Lalancette, Michaël
Volgushev, Stanislav
author_facet Engelke, Sebastian
Lalancette, Michaël
Volgushev, Stanislav
contents Extremal graphical models encode the conditional independence structure of multivariate extremes. Key statistics for learning extremal graphical structures are empirical extremal variograms, for which we prove non-asymptotic concentration bounds that hold under general domain of attraction conditions. For the popular class of Hüsler--Reiss models, we propose a majority voting algorithm for learning the underlying graph from data through $L^1$ regularized optimization. Our concentration bounds are used to derive explicit conditions that ensure the consistent recovery of any connected graph. The methodology is illustrated through a simulation study as well as the analysis of river discharge and currency exchange data.
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spellingShingle Learning extremal graphical structures in high dimensions
Engelke, Sebastian
Lalancette, Michaël
Volgushev, Stanislav
Statistics Theory
60G70, 62H22 (Primary) 62G30 (Secondary)
Extremal graphical models encode the conditional independence structure of multivariate extremes. Key statistics for learning extremal graphical structures are empirical extremal variograms, for which we prove non-asymptotic concentration bounds that hold under general domain of attraction conditions. For the popular class of Hüsler--Reiss models, we propose a majority voting algorithm for learning the underlying graph from data through $L^1$ regularized optimization. Our concentration bounds are used to derive explicit conditions that ensure the consistent recovery of any connected graph. The methodology is illustrated through a simulation study as well as the analysis of river discharge and currency exchange data.
title Learning extremal graphical structures in high dimensions
topic Statistics Theory
60G70, 62H22 (Primary) 62G30 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00840