Low-Rank and Sparse Drift Estimation for High-Dimensional L\'evy-Driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes
Abstract
We study high-dimensional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes driven by L\'evy noise and consider drift matrices that decompose into a low-rank plus sparse component, capturing a few latent factors together with a sparse network of direct interactions. For discrete-time observations under the localized, truncated contrast of Dexheimer and Jeszka, we analyze a convex estimator that minimizes this contrast with a combined nuclear-norm and -penalty on the low-rank and sparse parts, respectively. Under a restricted strong convexity condition, a rank--sparsity incoherence assumption, and regime-specific choices of truncation level, horizon, and sampling mesh for the background driving L\'evy process, we derive a non-asymptotic oracle inequality for the Frobenius risk of the estimator. The bound separates a discretization bias term of order from a stochastic term of order , thereby showing that the low-rank-plus-sparse structure improves the dependence on the ambient dimension relative to purely sparse estimators while retaining the same discretization and truncation behavior across the four L\'evy regimes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.12058,
title = {Low-Rank and Sparse Drift Estimation for High-Dimensional L\'evy-Driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes},
author = {Marina Palaisti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.12058},
year = {2026}
}