An analysis of penalized interaction models

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Abstract: An important consideration for variable selection in interaction models is to design an appropriate penalty that respects hierarchy of the importance of the variables. A common theme is to include an interaction term only after the corresponding main effects are present. In this paper, we study several recently proposed approaches and present a unified analysis on the convergence rate for a class of estimators, when the design satisfies the restricted eigenvalue condition. In particular, we show that with probability tending to one, the resulting estimates have a rate of convergence ssqrtlogp1/n in the ell1 error, where p1 is the ambient dimension, s is the true dimension and n is the sample size. We give a new proof that the restricted eigenvalue condition holds with high probability, when the variables in the main effects and the errors follow sub-Gaussian distributions. Under this setup, the interactions no longer follow Gaussian or sub-Gaussian distributions even if the main effects follow Gaussian, and thus existing works are not applicable. This result is of independent interest.



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