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On Catoni's M-Estimation

Statistics Theory 2022-10-18 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Catoni proposed a robust M-estimator and gave the deviation inequality for one fixed test function. The present paper is devoted to the uniform concentration inequality for a family of test functions. As an application, we consider empirical risk minimization for heavy-tailed losses.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.08211,
  title  = {On Catoni's M-Estimation},
  author = {Pengtao Li and Hanchao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08211},
  year   = {2022}
}
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