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Efficient inference in matrix-variate Gaussian models with iid observation noise

Authors

  • O. Stegle
  • C. Lippert
  • J. Mooij
  • N. Lawrence
  • K. Borgwardt

Journal

  • Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24 (NIPS 2011)

Citation

  • 1-9

Abstract

  • Inference in matrix-variate Gaussian models has major applications for multioutput prediction and joint learning of row and column covariances from matrixvariate data. Here, we discuss an approach for efficient inference in such models that explicitly account for iid observation noise. Computational tractability can be retained by exploiting the Kronecker product between row and column covariance matrices. Using this framework, we show how to generalize the Graphical Lasso in order to learn a sparse inverse covariance between features while accounting for a low-rank confounding covariance between samples. We show practical utility on applications to biology, where we model covariances with more than 100,000 dimensions. We find greater accuracy in recovering biological network structures
    and are able to better reconstruct the confounders.


DOI

doi:paper/4281-efficient-inference-in-matrix-variate-gaussian-models-with-iid-observation-noise