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讨论：通过凸优化选择潜变量图模型
- 研究问题
- 这篇讨论关注存在未观测变量的高斯图模型，能否直接处理秩约束，并为主论文采用的核范数惩罚提供替代方案？
- 方法与思路
- 讨论者先回顾主论文的稀疏矩阵与低秩矩阵分解及惩罚似然思路，再提出该问题可使用直接处理秩约束的高效算法。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要中讨论者称直接秩约束在这一问题上具有可计算性，可成为主论文凸松弛方法的替代；具体算法结果未展开。
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- 应区分主论文的识别与估计结果和讨论者新增主张，核对秩约束算法、计算条件及与核范数惩罚方案的比较依据。
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原文摘要
I want to start by congratulating Professors Chandrasekaran, Parrilo and Willsky for this fine piece of work.Their paper, hereafter referred to as CPW, addresses one of the biggest practical challenges of Gaussian graphical models-how to make inferences for a graphical model in the presence of missing variables.The difficulty comes from the fact that the validity of conditional independence relationships implied by a graphical model relies critically on the assumption that all conditional variables are observed, which of course can be unrealistic.As CPW shows, this is not as hopeless as it might appear to be.They characterize conditions under which a conditional graphical model can be identified, and offer a penalized likelihood method to reconstruct it.CPW notes that with missing variables, the concentration matrix of the observables can be expressed as the difference between a sparse matrix and a low-rank matrix; and suggests to exploit the sparsity using an ℓ 1 penalty and the low-rank structure by a trace norm penalty.In particular, the trace norm penalty or, more generally, nuclear norm penalties, can be viewed as a convex relaxation to the more direct rank constraint.Its use oftentimes comes as a necessity because rank constrained optimization could be computationally prohibitive.Interestingly, as I note here, the current problem actually lends itself to efficient algorithms in dealing with the rank constraint, and therefore allows for an attractive alternative to the approach of CPW.