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[Submitted on 30 Mar 2024 (v1), last revised 22 Aug 2024 (this version, v2)]
Title:Covariate-Elaborated Robust Partial Information Transfer with Conditional Spike-and-Slab Prior
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:The popularity of transfer learning stems from the fact that it can borrow information from useful auxiliary datasets. Existing statistical transfer learning methods usually adopt a global similarity measure between the source data and the target data, which may lead to inefficiency when only partial information is shared. In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian transfer learning method named ``CONCERT'' to allow robust partial information transfer for high-dimensional data analysis. A conditional spike-and-slab prior is introduced in the joint distribution of target and source parameters for information transfer. By incorporating covariate-specific priors, we can characterize partial similarities and integrate source information collaboratively to improve the performance on the target. In contrast to existing work, the CONCERT is a one-step procedure, which achieves variable selection and information transfer simultaneously. We establish variable selection consistency, as well as estimation and prediction error bounds for CONCERT. Our theory demonstrates the covariate-specific benefit of transfer learning. To ensure that our algorithm is scalable, we adopt the variational Bayes framework to facilitate implementation. Extensive experiments and two real data applications showcase the validity and advantage of CONCERT over existing cutting-edge transfer learning methods.
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From: Yijiao Zhang [view email][v1] Sat, 30 Mar 2024 07:32:58 UTC (6,193 KB)
[v2] Thu, 22 Aug 2024 03:42:55 UTC (15,283 KB)
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