On Learning Discrete Graphical Models using Group-Sparse Regularization
Ali Jalali, Pradeep Ravikumar, Vishvas Vasuki, Sujay Sanghavi · 2011
We study the problem of learning the graph structure associated with a general discrete graphical models (each variable can take any of m> 1 values, the clique factors have maximum size c ≥ 2) from samples, under high-dimensional scaling where the number of variables p could be larger than the number of samples n. We provide a quantitative consistency analysis of a procedure based on node-wise multi-class logistic regression with group-sparse regularization. We first consider general m-ary pairwise models – where each factor depends on at most two variables. We show that when