An efficient alternating direction algorithm for high-dimensional basis precision matrix estimation via lasso penalized D-trace loss
摘要
High-dimensional compositional data, including human microbiome information, play a crucial role in advancing the understanding of health conditions like metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and inflammatory bowel diseases. However, estimating precision matrices in such datasets is difficult due to the constraints of nonnegativity, the sum-to-one property, and the high-dimensional sparse nature of the data. In particular, traditional methods are unsuitable for addressing these complexities, especially when the number of variables (p) greatly surpasses the sample size (n), a scenario commonly encountered in microbiome studies. To tackle this problem, we introduce an efficient Alternating Direction Algorithm designed for the estimation of high-dimensional Basis Precision Matrices, termed ada-BPM. By using the optimality conditions of the lasso-penalized D-trace loss function, we obtain explicit formulas for each iteration, which has a maximum computational complexity of