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Introduction

Here I use ebnm_ash to see if I obtain similar decreases in the objective function as I obtained in the previous investigation.

Results

I use the same dataset as in the previous investigation.

# devtools::install_github("stephenslab/flashr", ref="trackObj")
devtools::load_all("/Users/willwerscheid/GitHub/flashr")
Loading flashr
# devtools::install_github("stephenslab/ebnm")
devtools::load_all("/Users/willwerscheid/GitHub/ebnm")
Loading ebnm
gtex <- readRDS(gzcon(url("https://github.com/stephenslab/gtexresults/blob/master/data/MatrixEQTLSumStats.Portable.Z.rds?raw=TRUE")))
strong <- gtex$strong.z

I fit four factors greedily using both ebnm_pn and ebnm_ash.

pn_res <- flash_add_greedy(strong, Kmax=4, verbose=FALSE)
fitting factor/loading 1
fitting factor/loading 2
fitting factor/loading 3
fitting factor/loading 4
ash_res <- flash_add_greedy(strong, Kmax=4, ebnm_fn = "ebnm_ash", 
                            verbose=FALSE)
fitting factor/loading 1
fitting factor/loading 2
fitting factor/loading 3
fitting factor/loading 4
plot_obj <- function(res, k, niters) {
  obj_data <- as.vector(rbind(res$obj[[k]]$after_tau,
                              res$obj[[k]]$after_f,
                              res$obj[[k]]$after_l))
  max_obj <- max(obj_data)
  obj_data <- obj_data - max_obj
  iter <- 1:length(obj_data) / 3
  
  if (length(obj_data) > niters*3) {
    idx <- (length(obj_data) - niters*3 + 1):length(obj_data)
    obj_data <- obj_data[idx]
    iter <- iter[idx]
  }
  
  plt_xlab = "Iteration"
  plt_ylab = "Diff. from maximum obj."
  plt_colors <- c("indianred1", "indianred3", "indianred4")
  plt_pch <- c(16, 17, 15)
  
  plot(iter, obj_data, col=plt_colors, pch=plt_pch,
       xlab=plt_xlab, ylab=plt_ylab)
  legend("bottomright", c("after tau", "after f", "after l"),
         col=plt_colors, pch=plt_pch)}

The problem discussed in the previous investigation occurs every time.

plot_obj(pn_res, 1, niters=3)

plot_obj(pn_res, 2, niters=5)

plot_obj(pn_res, 3, niters=20)

plot_obj(pn_res, 4, niters=10)

But it does not occur when using ebnm_ash.

plot_obj(ash_res, 1, niters=3)

plot_obj(ash_res, 2, niters=5)

plot_obj(ash_res, 3, niters=10)

plot_obj(ash_res, 4, niters=20)

Conclusions

When using ebnm_ash, the objective does not suffer from the same erratic behavior as when using ebnm_pn. Is there a small bug somewhere in the computation of the likelihood function for ebnm_pn?

Session information

sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ebnm_0.1-12   flashr_0.5-12

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