Modeling time series of multilayer network data is challenging due to the peculiar characteristics of real-world networks, such as sparsity and abrupt structural changes. Moreover, the impact of external factors on the network edges is highly heterogeneous due to edge- and time-specific effects. Capturing all these features results in a very high-dimensional inference problem. A novel tensor-on-tensor regression model is proposed, which integrates zero-inflated logistic regression to deal with the sparsity, and Markov-switching coefficients to account for structural changes. A tensor representation and decomposition of the regression coefficients are used to tackle the high-dimensionality and account for the heterogeneous impact of the covariate tensor across the response variables. The inference is performed following a Bayesian approach, and an efficient Gibbs sampler is developed for posterior approximation. Our methodology applied to financial and email networks detects different connectivity regimes and uncovers the role of covariates in the edge-formation process, which are relevant in risk and resource management. Code is available on GitHub. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Bayesian Markov-Switching Tensor Regression for Time-Varying Networks / Billio, Monica; Casarin, Roberto; Iacopini, Matteo. - In: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION. - ISSN 0162-1459. - 119:545(2024), pp. 109-121. [10.1080/01621459.2022.2102502]

Bayesian Markov-Switching Tensor Regression for Time-Varying Networks

Iacopini, Matteo
2024

Abstract

Modeling time series of multilayer network data is challenging due to the peculiar characteristics of real-world networks, such as sparsity and abrupt structural changes. Moreover, the impact of external factors on the network edges is highly heterogeneous due to edge- and time-specific effects. Capturing all these features results in a very high-dimensional inference problem. A novel tensor-on-tensor regression model is proposed, which integrates zero-inflated logistic regression to deal with the sparsity, and Markov-switching coefficients to account for structural changes. A tensor representation and decomposition of the regression coefficients are used to tackle the high-dimensionality and account for the heterogeneous impact of the covariate tensor across the response variables. The inference is performed following a Bayesian approach, and an efficient Gibbs sampler is developed for posterior approximation. Our methodology applied to financial and email networks detects different connectivity regimes and uncovers the role of covariates in the edge-formation process, which are relevant in risk and resource management. Code is available on GitHub. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
2024
multidimensional data
sparsity
nonlinear time series
zero-inflated logit
Bayesian Markov-Switching Tensor Regression for Time-Varying Networks / Billio, Monica; Casarin, Roberto; Iacopini, Matteo. - In: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION. - ISSN 0162-1459. - 119:545(2024), pp. 109-121. [10.1080/01621459.2022.2102502]
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