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Journal Articles Journal of Statistical Software Year : 2022

MLGL: An R package implementing correlated variable selection by hierarchical clustering and group-Lasso

Abstract

The MLGL R-package, standing for Multi-Layer Group-Lasso, implements a new procedure of variable selection in the context of redundancy between explanatory variables, which holds true with high dimensional data. A sparsity assumption is made that is, only a few variables are assumed to be relevant for predicting the response variable. In this context, the performance of classical Lasso-based approaches strongly deteriorates as the redundancy strengthens. The proposed approach combines variables aggregation and selection in order to improve interpretability and performance. First, a hierarchical clustering procedure provides at each level a partition of the variables into groups. Then, the set of groups of variables from the different levels of the hierarchy is given as input to group-Lasso, with weights adapted to the structure of the hierarchy. At this step, group-Lasso outputs sets of candidate groups of variables for each value of regularization parameter. The versatility offered by MLGL to choose groups at different levels of the hierarchy a priori induces a high computational complexity. MLGL however exploits the structure of the hierarchy and the weights used in group-Lasso to greatly reduce the final time cost. The final choice of the regularization parameter – and therefore the final choice of groups – is made by a multiple hierarchical testing procedure.
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Dates and versions

hal-01857242 , version 1 (14-08-2018)
hal-01857242 , version 2 (28-02-2022)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01857242 , version 2

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Quentin Grimonprez, Samuel Blanck, Alain Celisse, Guillemette Marot. MLGL: An R package implementing correlated variable selection by hierarchical clustering and group-Lasso. Journal of Statistical Software, In press. ⟨hal-01857242v2⟩
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