Fused lasso for high-dimensional regression over groups. This package implements the model described in Dondelinger et al. (2016).
Installation
library('devtools') install_github('FrankD/fuser')
Example
See also the included vignette.
library(fuser) set.seed(123) # Generate simple heterogeneous dataset k = 4 # number of groups p = 100 # number of covariates n.group = 15 # number of samples per group sigma = 0.05 # observation noise sd groups = rep(1:k, each=n.group) # group indicators # sparse linear coefficients beta = matrix(0, p, k) nonzero.ind = rbinom(p*k, 1, 0.025/k) # Independent coefficients nonzero.shared = rbinom(p, 1, 0.025) # shared coefficients beta[which(nonzero.ind==1)] = rnorm(sum(nonzero.ind), 1, 0.25) beta[which(nonzero.shared==1),] = rnorm(sum(nonzero.shared), -1, 0.25) X = lapply(1:k, function(k.i) matrix(rnorm(n.group*p),n.group, p)) # covariates y = sapply(1:k, function(k.i) X[[k.i]] %*% beta[,k.i] + rnorm(n.group, 0, sigma)) # response X = do.call('rbind', X) # Pairwise Fusion strength hyperparameters (tau(k,k')) # Same for all pairs in this example G = matrix(1, k, k) # Use L1 fusion to estimate betas (with near-optimal sparsity and # information sharing among groups) beta.estimate = fusedLassoProximal(X, y, groups, lambda=0.001, tol=9e-5, gamma=0.001, G, intercept=FALSE, num.it=2000) # Generate block diagonal matrices for L2 fusion approach transformed.data = generateBlockDiagonalMatrices(X, y, groups, G) # Use L2 fusion to estimate betas (with near-optimal information sharing among groups) beta.estimate = fusedL2DescentGLMNet(transformed.data$X, transformed.data$X.fused, transformed.data$Y, groups, lambda=c(0,0.001,0.1,1), gamma=0.001)