Adaptive regularization using the entire solution surface.
Several sparseness penalties have been suggested for delivery of good predictive performance in automatic variable selection within the framework of regularization. All assume that the true model is sparse. We propose a penalty, a convex combination of theL1- andL∞-norms, that adapts to a variety of situations including sparseness and nonsparseness, grouping and nongrouping. The proposed penalty performs grouping and adaptive regularization. In addition, we introduce a novel homotopy algorithm utilizing subgradients for developing regularization solution surfaces involving multiple regularizers. This permits efficient computation and adaptive tuning. Numerical experiments are conducted using simulation. In simulated and real examples, the proposed penalty compares well against popular alternatives.
School of Statistics , University of Minnesota , 313 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S. E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 , U.S.A. swu@stat.umn.edu xshen@stat.umn.edu charlie@stat.umn.edu.
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Homotopy; L1-norm; Lasso; L∞-norm; Subgradient; Support vector machine; Variable grouping and selection