Summary of Learning Massive-scale Partial Correlation Networks in Clinical Multi-omics Studies with Hp-accord, by Sungdong Lee et al.
Learning Massive-scale Partial Correlation Networks in Clinical Multi-omics Studies with HP-ACCORD
by Sungdong Lee, Joshua Bang, Youngrae Kim, Hyungwon Choi, Sang-Yun Oh, Joong-Ho Won
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel pseudolikelihood-based graphical model framework is introduced for estimating precision matrices from modern multi-omics data while balancing statistical estimation performance and computational scalability. The proposed estimator ensures estimation and selection consistency under high-dimensional assumptions, leveraging a new loss function and an _1-penalized empirical risk minimization approach. A provably fast computation algorithm uses operator-splitting and communication-avoiding distributed matrix multiplication. Simulated data with up to one million variables demonstrates complex dependency structures akin to biological networks. The framework is tested on a dual-omic liver cancer dataset, estimating a partial correlation network that prioritizes key transcription factors and co-activators while excluding epigenomic regulation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way of analyzing big sets of data from different areas like biology and genetics is presented in this paper. The authors created a special kind of model that helps with this analysis by making it faster and more efficient. They tested their model on fake data and real data from liver cancer, and the results were very good. It helped them find important genetic information that could be useful for understanding and treating diseases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Loss function » Precision
