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Activity Number: 317
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #301434
Title: Combining Covariate Data and Graph Regularization in a Semisupervised Setting
Author(s): Mark Culp*+ and George Michailidis+
Companies: West Virginia University and The University of Michigan
Address: , , , , , ,
Keywords: semi-supervised ; model ; regularization ; graph ; convergence ; semi-parametric
Abstract:

In this talk, we present a general framework that combines feature-based (X) data and graph-based (G) data for prediction of the response (Y). We examine a model fitting approach to fit eta=Xb+f(G) with link eta=g(u), coefficient b, and f is a function over the vertices of the graph. The procedure is semi-supervised in nature (trained on the labeled and unlabeled sets), requiring iterative algorithms for fitting this model. We discuss convergence properties of this procedure and provide a generalization to local scoring algorithms in semi-supervised learning. Applications in text data, proteomics and genomics are discussed. Specifically, in text problems the observations are papers, Y is the paper's category, X is the journal that the paper was published, and G is the co-citation network (vertices represent papers, and edges are citation counts between two vertices).


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