Support consistency of direct sparse-change learning in Markov networks
研究了在两个马尔可夫网络之间直接学习稀疏结构变化的充分条件，给出了样本量与维度、变化边数之间的关系，并证明了在无界和有界密度比模型下的一致性。
We study the problem of learning sparse structure changes between two Markov networks $P$ and $Q$. Rather than fitting two Markov networks separately to two sets of data and figuring out their differences, a recent work proposed to learn changes directly via estimating the ratio between two Markov network models. In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for successful change detection with respect to the sample size $n_{p},n_{q}$, the dimension of data $m$ and the number of changed edges $d$. When using an unbounded density ratio model, we prove that the true sparse changes can be consistently identified for $n_{p}=\Omega(d^{2}\log\frac{m^{2}+m}{2})$ and $n_{q}=\Omega({n_{p}^{2}})$, with an exponentially decaying upper-bound on learning error. Such sample complexity can be improved to $\min(n_{p},n_{q})=\Omega(d^{2}\log\frac{m^{2}+m}{2})$ when the boundedness of the density ratio model is assumed. Our theoretical guarantee can be applied to a wide range of discrete/continuous Markov networks.