AdaTrans: Feature-wise and Sample-wise Adaptive Transfer Learning for High-dimensional Regression

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Auteurs principaux: He, Zelin, Sun, Ying, Liu, Jingyuan, Li, Runze
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author He, Zelin
Sun, Ying
Liu, Jingyuan
Li, Runze
author_facet He, Zelin
Sun, Ying
Liu, Jingyuan
Li, Runze
contents We consider the transfer learning problem in the high dimensional linear regression setting, where the feature dimension is larger than the sample size. To learn transferable information, which may vary across features or the source samples, we propose an adaptive transfer learning method that can detect and aggregate the feature-wise (F-AdaTrans) or sample-wise (S-AdaTrans) transferable structures. We achieve this by employing a fused-penalty, coupled with weights that can adapt according to the transferable structure. To choose the weight, we propose a theoretically informed, data-driven procedure, enabling F-AdaTrans to selectively fuse the transferable signals with the target while filtering out non-transferable signals, and S-AdaTrans to obtain the optimal combination of information transferred from each source sample. We show that, with appropriately chosen weights, F-AdaTrans achieves a convergence rate close to that of an oracle estimator with a known transferable structure, and S-AdaTrans recovers existing near-minimax optimal rates as a special case. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated using both simulation and real data, demonstrating favorable performance compared to the existing methods.
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spellingShingle AdaTrans: Feature-wise and Sample-wise Adaptive Transfer Learning for High-dimensional Regression
He, Zelin
Sun, Ying
Liu, Jingyuan
Li, Runze
Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
Methodology
We consider the transfer learning problem in the high dimensional linear regression setting, where the feature dimension is larger than the sample size. To learn transferable information, which may vary across features or the source samples, we propose an adaptive transfer learning method that can detect and aggregate the feature-wise (F-AdaTrans) or sample-wise (S-AdaTrans) transferable structures. We achieve this by employing a fused-penalty, coupled with weights that can adapt according to the transferable structure. To choose the weight, we propose a theoretically informed, data-driven procedure, enabling F-AdaTrans to selectively fuse the transferable signals with the target while filtering out non-transferable signals, and S-AdaTrans to obtain the optimal combination of information transferred from each source sample. We show that, with appropriately chosen weights, F-AdaTrans achieves a convergence rate close to that of an oracle estimator with a known transferable structure, and S-AdaTrans recovers existing near-minimax optimal rates as a special case. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated using both simulation and real data, demonstrating favorable performance compared to the existing methods.
title AdaTrans: Feature-wise and Sample-wise Adaptive Transfer Learning for High-dimensional Regression
topic Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13565