Learning general sparse additive models from point queries in high dimensions

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Abstract: We consider the problem of learning a d-variate function f defined on the cube [−1,1]dsubsetmathbbRd, where the algorithm is assumed to have black box access to samples of f within this domain. Denote mathcalSrsubset[d]chooser;r=1,dots,r0 to be sets consisting of unknown r-wise interactions amongst the coordinate variables. We then focus on the setting where f has an additive structure, i.e., it can be represented as f = sum_{{mathbf j} in {mathcal S}_1} phi_{{mathbf j}} + sum_{{mathbf j} in {mathcal S}_2} phi_{{mathbf j}} + dots + sum_{{mathbf j} in {mathcal S}_{r_0}} phi_{{mathbf j}}, where each phimathbfj; mathbfjincalSr is at most r-variate for 1leqrleqr0. We derive randomized algorithms that query f at carefully constructed set of points, and exactly recover each mathcalSr with high probability. In contrary to the previous work, our analysis does not rely on numerical approximation of derivatives by finite order differences.


In learning methods, unknown functions \(f\) in multiple variables are to be recovered by a small number of samples taken from a compactum \(G\), say, where the functions are defined. In this paper, a probabilistic recovery of the unknown functions \(f\) is proposed for the compact set \(G\) being the multivariate unit-cube. The setting is so that the unknown function is additive (so-called SPAM, sparse additive models) with respect to its interactions. For this, the \(r\)-wise sets of (\(r\)-variate) interactions between the variables are used to form the sums that yield the unknown function \(f\). The goal is then to recover the sets of unknown interactions to form \(f\), where the recovery is to be understood in a probabilistic sense. The function \(f\) that underlies this approach is \textit{not} needed to be continuously differentiable (only Hölder continuous) as is required in other approaches. In the algorithms it is allowed to take samples within any points in \(G\) and the function values there at the discretion of the user. The \(r\)-wise interactions that are used are allowed for \(r\) \textit{arbitrary}, which is also new in this paper as compared to the known literature. The paper is organised such that the cases \(d=1\) and \(d=2\), uni- and bivariate, are always described first and then the new method is generalised to any dimension \(d\). An extensive discussion of the success of the new algorithms is provided at the end of the article.



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