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We study nonasymptotic minimax estimation of the linear functional $L(\theta)=\eta^\top \theta$ for a high-dimensional $s$-sparse mean vector with an arbitrary loading vector $\eta$. For symmetric noise with exponentially decaying tails, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jie Xie , Dongming Huang

We study minimax rates for high-dimensional linear regression with additive errors under the $\ell_p\ (1\leq p<\infty)$-losses, where the regression parameter is of weak sparsity. Our lower and upper bounds agree up to constant factors,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

This work studies finite-sample properties of the risk of the minimum-norm interpolating predictor in high-dimensional regression models. If the effective rank of the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of the $p$ regression features is much larger…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-23 Florentina Bunea , Seth Strimas-Mackey , Marten Wegkamp

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a high-dimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish a lower bound on the minimax risk of estimators under the $l_2$ loss, in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Aharon Birnbaum , Iain M. Johnstone , Boaz Nadler , Debashis Paul

We consider a general model for high-dimensional empirical risk minimization whereby the data $\mathbf{x}_i$ are $d$-dimensional Gaussian vectors, the model is parametrized by $\mathbf{\Theta}\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times k}$, and the loss depends…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-26 Kiana Asgari , Andrea Montanari , Basil Saeed

In this paper, we derive minimax rates for estimating both parametric and nonparametric components in partially linear additive models with high dimensional sparse vectors and smooth functional components. The minimax lower bound for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Zhuqing Yu , Michael Levine , Guang Cheng

Consider the standard linear regression model $\y = \Xmat \betastar + w$, where $\y \in \real^\numobs$ is an observation vector, $\Xmat \in \real^{\numobs \times \pdim}$ is a design matrix, $\betastar \in \real^\pdim$ is the unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-14 Garvesh Raskutti , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

High-dimensional inference refers to problems of statistical estimation in which the ambient dimension of the data may be comparable to or possibly even larger than the sample size. We study an instance of high-dimensional inference in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

The effect of measurement errors in discriminant analysis is investigated. Given observations $Z=X+\epsilon$, where $\epsilon$ denotes a random noise, the goal is to predict the density of $X$ among two possible candidates $f$ and $g$. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Sébastien Loustau , Clément Marteau

This paper investigates the effect of the design matrix on the ability (or inability) to estimate a sparse parameter in linear regression. More specifically, we characterize the optimal rate of estimation when the smallest singular value of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Reese Pathak , Cong Ma

We consider minimum variance estimation within the sparse linear Gaussian model (SLGM). A sparse vector is to be estimated from a linearly transformed version embedded in Gaussian noise. Our analysis is based on the theory of reproducing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Alexander Jung , Sebastian Schmutzhard , Franz Hlawatsch , Zvika Ben-Haim , Yonina C. Eldar

We study sparse principal components analysis in the high-dimensional setting, where $p$ (the number of variables) can be much larger than $n$ (the number of observations). We prove optimal, non-asymptotic lower and upper bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-07 Vincent Q. Vu , Jing Lei

We study estimation of an $s$-sparse signal in the $p$-dimensional Gaussian sequence model with equicorrelated observations and derive the minimax rate. A new phenomenon emerges from correlation, namely the rate scales with respect to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Subhodh Kotekal , Chao Gao

In this paper, we focus on the high-dimensional double sparse structure, where the parameter of interest simultaneously encourages group-wise sparsity and element-wise sparsity in each group. By combining the Gilbert-Varshamov bound and its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Zhifan Li , Yanhang Zhang , Jianxin Yin

Estimating linear, mean-square continuous functionals is a pivotal challenge in statistics. In high-dimensional contexts, this estimation is often performed under the assumption of exact model sparsity, meaning that only a small number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Jelena Bradic , Victor Chernozhukov , Whitney K. Newey , Yinchu Zhu

We consider a matrix-valued Gaussian sequence model, that is, we observe a sequence of high-dimensional $M \times N$ matrices of heterogeneous Gaussian random variables $x_{ij,k}$ for $i \in\{1,...,M\}$, $j \in \{1,...,N\}$ and $k \in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Cristina Butucea , Ghislaine Gayraud

We study the problem of designing minimax procedures in linear regression under the quantile risk. We start by considering the realizable setting with independent Gaussian noise, where for any given noise level and distribution of inputs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Ayoub El Hanchi , Chris J. Maddison , Murat A. Erdogdu

We study the problem of selecting features associated with extreme values in high dimensional linear regression. Normally, in linear modeling problems, the presence of abnormal extreme values or outliers is considered an anomaly which…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-16 Andersen Chang , Minjie Wang , Genevera Allen

We study the detection of a change in the covariance matrix of $n$ independent sub-Gaussian random variables of dimension $p$. Our first contribution is to show that $\log\log(8n)$ is the exact minimax testing rate for a change in variance…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Per August Jarval Moen

For the problem of high-dimensional sparse linear regression, it is known that an $\ell_0$-based estimator can achieve a $1/n$ "fast" rate on the prediction error without any conditions on the design matrix, whereas in absence of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Yuchen Zhang , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan