A-quick-tour-of-StMoE

In meteorits: Mixture-of-Experts Modeling for Complex Non-Normal Distributions

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library(meteorits)

Introduction

StMoE (Skew-t Mixture-of-Experts) provides a flexible and robust modelling framework for heterogenous data with possibly skewed, heavy-tailed distributions and corrupted by atypical observations. StMoE consists of a mixture of K skew-t expert regressors network (of degree p) gated by a softmax gating network (of degree q) and is represented by:

• The gating network parameters alpha's of the softmax net.
• The experts network parameters: The location parameters (regression coefficients) beta's, scale parameters sigma's, the skewness parameters lambda's and the degree of freedom parameters nu's. StMoE thus generalises mixtures of (normal, skew-normal, t, and skew-t) distributions and mixtures of regressions with these distributions. For example, when $q=0$, we retrieve mixtures of (skew-t, t-, skew-normal, or normal) regressions, and when both $p=0$ and $q=0$, it is a mixture of (skew-t, t-, skew-normal, or normal) distributions. It also reduces to the standard (normal, skew-normal, t, and skew-t) distribution when we only use a single expert ($K=1$).

Model estimation/learning is performed by a dedicated expectation conditional maximization (ECM) algorithm by maximizing the observed data log-likelihood. We provide simulated examples to illustrate the use of the model in model-based clustering of heterogeneous regression data and in fitting non-linear regression functions.

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Application to a simulated dataset

Generate sample

n <- 500 # Size of the sample
alphak <- matrix(c(0, 8), ncol = 1) # Parameters of the gating network
betak <- matrix(c(0, -2.5, 0, 2.5), ncol = 2) # Regression coefficients of the experts
sigmak <- c(0.5, 0.5) # Standard deviations of the experts
lambdak <- c(3, 5) # Skewness parameters of the experts
nuk <- c(5, 7) # Degrees of freedom of the experts network t densities
x <- seq.int(from = -1, to = 1, length.out = n) # Inputs (predictors)

# Generate sample of size n
sample <- sampleUnivStMoE(alphak = alphak, betak = betak, sigmak = sigmak, 
                          lambdak = lambdak, nuk = nuk, x = x)
y <- sample$y

Set up StMoE model parameters

K <- 2 # Number of regressors/experts
p <- 1 # Order of the polynomial regression (regressors/experts)
q <- 1 # Order of the logistic regression (gating network)

Set up EM parameters

n_tries <- 1
max_iter <- 1500
threshold <- 1e-5
verbose <- TRUE
verbose_IRLS <- FALSE

Estimation

stmoe <- emStMoE(X = x, Y = y, K, p, q, n_tries, max_iter, 
                 threshold, verbose, verbose_IRLS)

Summary

stmoe$summary()

Plots

Mean curve

stmoe$plot(what = "meancurve")

Confidence regions

stmoe$plot(what = "confregions")

Clusters

stmoe$plot(what = "clusters")

Log-likelihood

stmoe$plot(what = "loglikelihood")

Application to real dataset

Load data

library(MASS)
data("mcycle")
x <- mcycle$times
y <- mcycle$accel

Set up StMoE model parameters

K <- 4 # Number of regressors/experts
p <- 2 # Order of the polynomial regression (regressors/experts)
q <- 1 # Order of the logistic regression (gating network)

Set up EM parameters

n_tries <- 1
max_iter <- 1500
threshold <- 1e-5
verbose <- TRUE
verbose_IRLS <- FALSE

Estimation

stmoe <- emStMoE(X = x, Y = y, K, p, q, n_tries, max_iter, 
                 threshold, verbose, verbose_IRLS)

Summary

stmoe$summary()

Plots

Mean curve

stmoe$plot(what = "meancurve")

Confidence regions

stmoe$plot(what = "confregions")

Clusters

stmoe$plot(what = "clusters")

Log-likelihood

stmoe$plot(what = "loglikelihood")

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