Summary of Distributed High-dimensional Quantile Regression: Estimation Efficiency and Support Recovery, by Caixing Wang et al.
Distributed High-Dimensional Quantile Regression: Estimation Efficiency and Support Recovery
by Caixing Wang, Ziliang Shen
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a distributed approach for estimating high-dimensional linear quantile regression models, which is useful for robustly modeling datasets with outliers or heterogeneous distributions. The non-smoothness of the check loss function poses challenges in computation and theory, but by transforming the problem into a least-squares optimization and using double-smoothing, the authors develop an efficient algorithm that achieves near-oracle convergence rates and high support recovery accuracy. The method is evaluated on synthetic datasets and a real-world application, demonstrating its effectiveness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us build better statistical models for big data. Right now, we use least squares regression to make predictions, but this can be bad if our data has outliers or isn’t consistent. So, the authors came up with a new way to do something called quantile regression, which is more robust and works well even when there are problems in the data. They made an algorithm that does this in a distributed way, meaning it can handle huge amounts of data, and showed that it works really well on fake data and real-world examples. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Loss function » Optimization » Regression
