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Conference Papers Year : 2012

On Sparse, Spectral and Other Parameterizations of Binary Probabilistic Models

Abstract

This paper studies issues relating to the parameterization of probability distributions over binary data sets. Several such parameterizations of models for binary data are known, including the Ising, generalized Ising, canonical and full parameterizations. We also discuss a parameterization that we call the "spectral parameterization", which has received significantly less coverage in existing literature. We provide this parameterization with a spectral interpretation by casting log- linear models in terms of orthogonal Walsh- Hadamard harmonic expansions. Using various standard and group sparse regularizers for structural learning, we provide a comprehensive theoretical and empirical comparison of these parameterizations. We show that the spectral parameterization, along with the canonical, has the best performance and sparsity levels, while the spectral does not depend on any particular reference state. The spectral interpretation also provides a new starting point for analyzing the statistics of binary data sets; we measure the magnitude of higher order interactions in the underlying distributions for several data sets.
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hal-00717714 , version 1 (13-07-2012)

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David Buchman, Mark Schmidt, Shakir Mohamed, David Poole, Nando de Freitas. On Sparse, Spectral and Other Parameterizations of Binary Probabilistic Models. AISTATS 2012 - 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Apr 2012, La Palma, Spain. ⟨hal-00717714⟩
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