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PliableBVS: A flexible Bayesian variable selection method for modeling interactions with mandatory modifying variables

Theophilus Quachie Asenso , Zhi Zhao , Maren-Helene Langeland Degnes , Marie Cecilie Paasche Roland , Trond Melbye Michelsen , Manuela Zucknick This is my paper

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keywords Bayesian variable selectionspike-and-slab priorsinteraction modelinghierarchical constraintshigh-dimensional dataomics analysispliable lasso
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PliableBVS extends the pliable lasso with a two-layer spike-and-slab prior to jointly select main effects and interactions under weak hierarchy.

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The paper introduces PliableBVS as a Bayesian variable selection method for high-dimensional interaction models involving a large set of features and a smaller set of mandatory modifying variables. It replaces the pliable lasso penalty with spike-and-slab priors arranged in two layers, one for main effects and a second layer that selects interactions only conditional on the corresponding main effects. This structure preserves the asymmetric weak hierarchical constraint while allowing joint selection in a probabilistic framework that also includes continuous shrinkage. Simulations show the method identifies active effects more accurately, reduces false discoveries, and improves prediction accuracy over the pliable lasso in most scenarios. Real-data applications to labor onset and preeclampsia studies recover biologically meaningful selections.

Core claim

PliableBVS combines the continuous shrinkage of the Bayesian lasso with a two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior, where the first layer governs main-effect inclusion and the second layer controls interaction inclusion conditional on the main effects, thereby enabling simultaneous selection of high-dimensional main and interaction effects while preserving the pliable lasso's asymmetric weak hierarchical constraint within a coherent probabilistic framework.

What carries the argument

Two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior structure with the interaction layer conditional on main-effect inclusion.

If this is right

  • Outperforms the pliable lasso in identifying active main and interaction effects in simulation studies.
  • Reduces false discoveries relative to the pliable lasso.
  • Improves prediction accuracy in most simulation scenarios.
  • Selects biologically meaningful features and interactions in labor onset and preeclampsia datasets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The two-layer prior structure could be swapped into other penalized regression frameworks that enforce similar hierarchy.
  • Posterior probabilities from the model provide direct uncertainty measures on selected interactions that point estimates lack.
  • The approach may apply directly to non-omics settings that feature a small set of mandatory modifiers and many candidate features.

Load-bearing premise

The two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior structure successfully preserves the asymmetric weak hierarchical constraint of the pliable lasso while enabling joint selection of main and interaction effects.

What would settle it

A repeated simulation study in which PliableBVS identifies fewer active effects, produces more false discoveries, or yields lower prediction accuracy than the pliable lasso would falsify the performance claims.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.02017 by Manuela Zucknick, Maren-Helene Langeland Degnes, Marie Cecilie Paasche Roland, Theophilus Quachie Asenso, Trond Melbye Michelsen, Zhi Zhao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Plots for main (top row) and interaction (bottom row) effects for linear regression simu [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Contour plots for the main and interaction effects for linear regression simulation scenario [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Results for the analysis of the labor onset data set [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Proteins’ estimated main effects for classifying LOPE and their interaction effects with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png] view at source ↗
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High-dimensional interaction models are useful for studying, for example, how a large set of variables of interest, such as gene expression or other omics features, interact with a smaller set of modifying variables, such as clinical covariates. In this context, the pliable lasso has recently been proposed as an efficient method for screening large numbers of potential interaction terms under an asymmetric weak hierarchical constraint. In this work, we extend this framework by introducing PliableBVS, a Bayesian variable selection approach that preserves the hierarchical structure of the pliable lasso while inducing sparsity through spike-and-slab priors. The proposed model combines the continuous shrinkage effect of Bayesian lasso with a hierarchical spike-and-slab prior formulation that has two layers of decision variables: one governing the inclusion of main effects and another controlling the inclusion of interaction effects which is conditional on the inclusion of the corresponding main effects. This structure enables simultaneous selection of high-dimensional main and interaction effects within a coherent probabilistic framework. In simulation studies the proposed method outperforms the original pliable lasso in identifying active main and interaction effects, reducing false discoveries, and improving prediction accuracy in most scenarios. Applications with data from a labor onset study and a preeclampsia study demonstrate that PliableBVS selects biologically meaningful features and interactions.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes PliableBVS, a Bayesian variable selection method that extends the pliable lasso for high-dimensional interaction models involving a large set of variables (e.g., omics features) and a smaller set of mandatory modifying variables (e.g., clinical covariates). It introduces a two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior structure that combines continuous shrinkage with discrete inclusion indicators to enforce the asymmetric weak hierarchical constraint while performing joint selection of main and interaction effects. The manuscript claims that in simulation studies the method outperforms the pliable lasso in identifying active effects, reducing false discoveries, and improving prediction accuracy in most scenarios, and demonstrates selection of biologically meaningful features in applications to labor onset and preeclampsia datasets.

Significance. A Bayesian formulation that preserves the pliable lasso hierarchy while enabling full posterior inference would be a useful addition to the high-dimensional interaction modeling literature, particularly for omics applications where uncertainty quantification and coherent model selection are valuable. The two-layer prior construction is a natural probabilistic extension of the frequentist constraint, and the reported simulation and application results, if substantiated with full design details, would support its practical utility.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract (simulation studies paragraph)] The abstract states that 'in simulation studies the proposed method outperforms the original pliable lasso in identifying active main and interaction effects, reducing false discoveries, and improving prediction accuracy in most scenarios,' yet provides no information on data-generating processes, number of replications, tuning protocols, exact performance metrics (e.g., sensitivity, FDR, MSE), or implementation. This absence is load-bearing for the central performance claim and prevents assessment of whether the reported superiority holds under the stated conditions.
  2. [Model formulation (abstract description)] The description of the two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior states that it 'preserves the hierarchical structure of the pliable lasso' and 'enables simultaneous selection... within a coherent probabilistic framework,' but the provided text contains no explicit prior equations, no derivation showing that the conditional inclusion of interactions given main effects enforces the asymmetric weak hierarchy without additional constraints, and no comparison to the original pliable lasso penalty. This leaves the key modeling assumption unverified.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be strengthened by a single sentence summarizing the number of simulation scenarios or the specific biomedical endpoints used in the applications.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments. We address each major comment below and have made targeted revisions to the abstract to improve clarity while preserving its length constraints. The full technical details remain in the body of the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract (simulation studies paragraph)] The abstract states that 'in simulation studies the proposed method outperforms the original pliable lasso in identifying active main and interaction effects, reducing false discoveries, and improving prediction accuracy in most scenarios,' yet provides no information on data-generating processes, number of replications, tuning protocols, exact performance metrics (e.g., sensitivity, FDR, MSE), or implementation. This absence is load-bearing for the central performance claim and prevents assessment of whether the reported superiority holds under the stated conditions.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract is necessarily concise and omits simulation specifics. The complete data-generating processes (including signal strengths and correlation structures), 100 replications, cross-validation tuning, and metrics (sensitivity, FDR, MSE, and prediction error) are fully specified in Section 4. To address the concern, we have revised the abstract to include a brief clause summarizing the simulation design and metrics used. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Model formulation (abstract description)] The description of the two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior states that it 'preserves the hierarchical structure of the pliable lasso' and 'enables simultaneous selection... within a coherent probabilistic framework,' but the provided text contains no explicit prior equations, no derivation showing that the conditional inclusion of interactions given main effects enforces the asymmetric weak hierarchy without additional constraints, and no comparison to the original pliable lasso penalty. This leaves the key modeling assumption unverified.

    Authors: The abstract provides only a high-level overview. The explicit two-layer prior formulation, the conditional probability structure that enforces the asymmetric weak hierarchy, and the direct comparison to the pliable lasso penalty (including the absence of additional constraints) are derived and presented in Section 2.2. We have revised the abstract to more explicitly note that the conditional inclusion mechanism preserves the hierarchy, directing readers to the model section for the equations and verification. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper proposes PliableBVS as a new Bayesian extension of the pliable lasso, using a two-layer hierarchical spike-and-slab prior to enforce asymmetric weak hierarchy while enabling joint selection of main and interaction effects. Model formulation, simulation-based performance claims, and real-data applications are presented as independent evaluations without any quoted reduction of predictions to fitted parameters by construction, load-bearing self-citations, or self-definitional steps. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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