hsm-package: Block coordinate descent based on path graphs for proximal...

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Description

hsm is the R package implementing Algorithm 4 of Yan & Bien (2017) that uses path-graph-based BCD to solve the proximal operator of latent group Lasso in hierarchical sparse modeling (HSM). The algorithm solves the proximal operator using BCD that circles over path graphs decomposed a directed acyclic graph (DAG).

Details

The package is designed for situation in which latent group Lasso is used to achieve hierarchical sparsity pattern in a DAG. The hierarchical sparsity pattern is one when parameters embedded in a node being set to zero, all the parameters embedded in the descendant nodes in DAG are zeroed out as well.

Its main functions are hsm, hsm.path.

Author(s)

Xiaohan Yan xy257@cornell.edu, Jacob Bien

References

Yan, X. and Bien, J. (2017). Hierarchical Sparse Modeling: A Choice of Two Group Lasso Formulations. Statist. Sci. 32, no. 4, 531–560. doi:10.1214/17-STS622.


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