用核方法统一处理复杂结构假设检验,提升发现力并控制假阳性。
Controlling False Discovery in Arbitrarily Structured Hypothesis Spaces via Reproducing Kernels

- 基于再生核希尔伯特空间,将结构化假设检验转为正则化学习问题。
- 在真实空间数据和蛋白互作图上验证,显著提升检测效能。
- 支持未观测点推断,适合样本稀缺的实验设计场景。
大规模假设检验是现代科学的核心,控制假发现率(FDR)已成为管理多重检验中假阳性标准方法。假设通常并非孤立存在,而是通过邻近性、连通性或层次关系呈现结构。这种结构既是挑战也是机遇:传统方法视其为需保守校正的障碍,但合理利用可大幅提高发现能力。本文将结构化FDR控制重构为正则化学习问题,通过在合适的再生核希尔伯特空间(RKHS)中优化,提出一个仅通过选择核函数即可统一处理连续域、图结构与层次结构的算法框架。该方法提供平滑解而非先前方法的分段常数拟合,实现基于似然的超参数选择而非启发式调参,并可在未观测位置进行推断,从而支持高效实验设计。基于该估计器,我们提出两种决策规则并证明其能控制FDR。我们在两类数据上验证方法:来自高维真实数据集的空间位置,以及利用蛋白-蛋白互作图的差异基因表达任务。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large-scale hypothesis testing is central to modern science, where controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) has become the standard approach to managing false positives across many simultaneous tests. Hypotheses rarely exist in isolation; they often exhibit structure through proximity, connectivity, or hierarchy. This structure represents both a challenge and an opportunity: while classical methods treat these dependencies as obstacles requiring conservative correction, leveraging them can substantially increase discovery power. Here, we reframe structured FDR control as a regularized learning problem. By optimizing within a suitable Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), we introduce a framework that unifies continuous domains, graphs, and hierarchies under a single algorithm through kernel choice alone. This formulation enables smooth solutions in place of the piecewise-constant fits of prior methods, principled likelihood-based hyperparameter selection rather than heuristic tuning, and inference at unobserved locations which in turn supports sample-efficient experimental design. Building on this estimator, we provide two decision rules which we prove to control the FDR. We validate our method on two sources: spatial locations derived from high-dimensional real-world datasets, and a differential gene expression task utilizing protein-protein interaction graphs.
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