Efficient proximal gradient algorithms for joint graphical lasso
This work provides incremental improvements in computational efficiency for statisticians and data scientists dealing with high-dimensional sparse data.
The authors tackled the problem of learning undirected graphical models from sparse data by proposing efficient proximal gradient algorithms for joint graphical lasso, achieving competitive accuracy and precision compared to state-of-the-art methods.
We consider learning an undirected graphical model from sparse data. While several efficient algorithms have been proposed for graphical lasso (GL), the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is the main approach taken concerning for joint graphical lasso (JGL). We propose proximal gradient procedures with and without a backtracking option for the JGL. These procedures are first-order and relatively simple, and the subproblems are solved efficiently in closed form. We further show the boundedness for the solution of the JGL problem and the iterations in the algorithms. The numerical results indicate that the proposed algorithms can achieve high accuracy and precision, and their efficiency is competitive with state-of-the-art algorithms.