Siahkamari, AliGangrade, AdityaKulis, BrianSaligrama, Venkatesh2021-08-202021-08-202020Ali Siahkamari, Aditya Gangrade, Brian Kulis, Venkatesh Saligrama. 2020. "Piecewise Linear Regression via a Difference of Convex Functions." International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML. PMLR,https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42926We present a new piecewise linear regression methodology that utilizes fitting a difference of convex functions (DC functions) to the data. These are functions f that may be represented as the difference 𝜙_1- 𝜙_2 for a choice of convex functions 𝜙_1,𝜙_2. The method proceeds by estimating piecewise-liner convex functions, in a manner similar to max-affine regression, whose difference approximates the data. The choice of the function is regularised by a new seminorm over the class of DC functions that controls the 𝓁_∞ Lipschitz constant of the estimate. The resulting methodology can be efficiently implemented via Quadratic programming even in high dimensions, and is shown to have close to minimax statistical risk. We empirically validate the method, showing it to be practically implementable, and to have comparable performance to existing egression/classification methods on real-world datasets.p. 8895 - 8904en-USCopyright 2020 by the author(s).Conference materials0000-0002-0675-2268 (Saligrama, Venkatesh)612677