An Adaptive Test of Independence with Analytic Kernel Embeddings

Authors: Wittawat Jitkrittum, Zoltán Szabó, Arthur Gretton

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental In real-world benchmarks, independence tests using the optimized features perform comparably to the state-of-the-art quadratic-time HSIC test, and outperform competing O(n) and O(n log n) tests. In this section, we empirically study the performance of the proposed method on both toy (Section 3.1) and real problems (Section 3.2).
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Gatsby Unit, University College London, UK. 2CMAP, École Polytechnique, France.
Pseudocode No The paper describes methods in mathematical notation and prose, but does not include any structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code Yes Code is available at https://github.com/wittawatj/fsic-test.
Open Datasets Yes Million Song Data subset: https://archive.ics. uci.edu/ml/datasets/Year Prediction MSD. Video Story46K dataset: https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/mediamill/datasets/videostory.php.
Dataset Splits Yes For a sample of size n, NFSIC-opt uses half the sample for parameter tuning, and the other disjoint half for the test.
Hardware Specification No No specific hardware details (such as CPU/GPU models, memory, or cloud instance types) used for running experiments are provided.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific version numbers for software dependencies or libraries used in the implementation or experiments.
Experiment Setup Yes The parameters of NFSIC-opt are σx, σy, and J locations of size (dx + dy)J. We treat all the parameters as a long vector in R2+(dx+dy)J and use gradient ascent to optimize ˆλn/2. ... The regularization parameter γn in NFSIC is fixed to a small value, and is not optimized. ... Gaussian widths σx and σy are set according to the widely used median heuristic... We set J = 10, use 10 inducing points in Ny HSIC, and 10 random Fourier features in FHSIC and RDC. ... The significance level α is set to 0.05.