{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/robust-variable-selection-under-cellwise","title":"Robust Variable Selection under Cellwise Contamination","arxiv_id":"2110.12406","date":"2021-10-24","proceeding":null,"authors":["Peng Su","Garth Tarr","Samuel Muller"],"abstract":"Cellwise outliers are widespread in data and traditional robust methods may fail when applied to datasets under such contamination. We propose a variable selection procedure, that uses a pairwise robust estimator to obtain an initial empirical covariance matrix among the response and potentially many predictors. Then we replace the primary design matrix and the response vector with their robust counterparts based on the estimated covariance matrix. Finally, we adopt the adaptive Lasso to obtain variable selection results. The proposed approach is robust to cellwise outliers in regular and high dimensional settings and empirical results show good performance in comparison with recently proposed alternative robust approaches, particularly in the challenging setting when contamination rates are high but the magnitude of outliers is moderate. Real data applications demonstrate the practical utility of the proposed method.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12406v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.12406v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"robust-variable-selection-under-cellwise","repo_url":"https://github.com/pengsu517/robcovsel","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}