2019/11/08 by Patrick Flaherty, Pitchaya Wiratchotisatian, Flaherty, Patrick +7
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis #Gene expression and cancer classification #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Methodology (stat.ME) #Optimization and Control (math.OC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.04285
openalex publication_date 2019/11/08 · openalex created_date 2020/03/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a global optimization approach for solving the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) clustering problem under the Gaussian mixture model.Our approach can accommodate side constraints and it preserves the combinatorial structure of the MAP clustering problem by formulating it asa mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem (MINLP). We approximate the MINLP through a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP) transformation that improves computational aspects while guaranteeing ε-global optimality. An important benefit of our approach is the explicit quantification of the degree of suboptimality, via the optimality gap, en route to finding the globally optimal MAP clustering. Numerical experiments comparing our method to other approaches show that our method finds a better solution than standard clustering methods. Finally, we cluster a real breast cancer gene expression data set incorporating intrinsic subtype information; the induced constraints substantially improve the computational performance and produce more coherent and bio-logically meaningful clusters.