AcceleratedCVonMLR_matlab

Approximate cross-validation for multinomial logistic regression with elastic net regularization

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DESCRIPTION

Using estimated weight vectors wV given the feature data X and the class Ycode for multinomial logistic regression penalized by elastic net regularization (L1 norm and L2 norm), this program computes and returns an approximate leave-one-out estimator (LOOE) and its standard error of predictive likelihood. All required codes are in the "routine" folder. Note that this program itself does not contain any solver to obtain wV. Please use other distributed programs for the purpose.

USAGE

For multinomial logistic regression with Np (>2) classes,

[LOOE,ERR] = acv_mlr(wV,X,Ycode,Np,lambda2)

Inputs:

• wV: the estimated weight vectors of N * Np dimensional
• X: the set of feature vectors of M * N dimensional
• Ycode: the M * Np dimensional binary matrix representing the class to which the corresponding feature vector belongs
• lambda2: the coefficient of the L2 norm. If this argument is absent, lambda2 is set to be the default value lambda2=0

Outputs:

• LOOE: Approximate value of the leave-one-out estimator
• ERR: Approximate standard error of the leave-one-out estimator

For more details, type help acv_mlr.

If acv_mlr takes a long running time, please try a further simplified approximation as

[LOOE,ERR] = saacv_mlr(wV,X,Ycode,Np,lambda2)

In our experiments, acv_mlr runs faster if N is several hundreds or less, but saacv_mlr is faster for larger N. For small data and model, these approximations are not necessarily fast, and hence we recommend to perform the literal cross-validation for such cases. For details, see REFERENCE.

For binomial logistic regression (logit model),

[LOOE,ERR] = acv_logit(w,X,Ycode,lambda2)

Inputs:

• w: the estimated weight vector of N dimensional
• X: the set of feature vectors of M * N dimensional
• Ycode: the M * 2 dimensional binary matrix representing the class to which the corresponding feature vector belongs
• lambda2: the coefficient of the L2 norm. If this argument is absent, lambda2 is set to be the default value lambda2=0

Outputs are the same as the multinomial case. The further simplified approximation for the logit model is implemented in saacv_logit.

DEMONSTRATION

In the "demo" folder, demonstration codes for the multinomial and binomial logistic regressions, demo_LOOEapprox_mlr.m and demo_LOOEapprox_logit.m, respectively, are available.

Requirement: glmnet (https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/glmnet_matlab/) is required to obtain the weight vectors in these demonstration codes.

REFERENCE

Tomoyuki Obuchi and Yoshiyuki Kabashima: "Accelerating Cross-Validation in Multinomial Logistic Regression with $ell_1$-Regularization", arXiv: 1711.05420