Affiliation:
1. Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Abstract
The application of machine learning to inference problems in biology is dominated by supervised learning problems of regression and classification, and unsupervised learning problems of clustering and variants of low-dimensional projections for visualization. A class of problems that have not gained much attention is detecting outliers in datasets, arising from reasons such as gross experimental, reporting or labelling errors. These could also be small parts of a dataset that are functionally distinct from the majority of a population. Outlier data are often identified by considering the probability density of normal data and comparing data likelihoods against some threshold. This classical approach suffers from the curse of dimensionality, which is a serious problem with omics data which are often found in very high dimensions. We develop an outlier detection method based on structured low-rank approximation methods. The objective function includes a regularizer based on neighbourhood information captured in the graph Laplacian. Results on publicly available genomic data show that our method robustly detects outliers whereas a density-based method fails even at moderate dimensions. Moreover, we show that our method has better clustering and visualization performance on the recovered low-dimensional projection when compared with popular dimensionality reduction techniques.
Funder
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Cited by
12 articles.
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