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Aggregation of Multiple Knockoffs

Tuan-Binh Nguyen, Jerome-Alexis Chevalier, Bertrand Thirion, Sylvain Arlot

Abstract

We develop an extension of the knockoff inference procedure, introduced by Barber & Candes (2015). This new method, called Aggregation of Multiple Knockoffs (AKO), addresses the instability inherent to the random nature of knockoff-based inference. Specifically, AKO improves both the stability and power compared with the original knockoff algorithm while still maintaining guarantees for false discovery rate control. We provide a new inference procedure, prove its core properties, and demonstrate its benefits in a set of experiments on synthetic and real datasets.

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v119-nguyen20a,
  title = 	 {Aggregation of Multiple Knockoffs},
  author =       {Nguyen, Tuan-Binh and Chevalier, Jerome-Alexis and Thirion, Bertrand and Arlot, Sylvain},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {7283--7293},
  year = 	 {2020},
  editor = 	 {III, Hal Daumé and Singh, Aarti},
  volume = 	 {119},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {13--18 Jul},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/nguyen20a/nguyen20a.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/nguyen20a.html},
  abstract = 	 {We develop an extension of the knockoff inference procedure, introduced by Barber & Candes (2015). This new method, called Aggregation of Multiple Knockoffs (AKO), addresses the instability inherent to the random nature of knockoff-based inference. Specifically, AKO improves both the stability and power compared with the original knockoff algorithm while still maintaining guarantees for false discovery rate control. We provide a new inference procedure, prove its core properties, and demonstrate its benefits in a set of experiments on synthetic and real datasets.}
}