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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…

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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

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 the observations of an unknown $s$-sparse vector ${\boldsymbol \theta}$ corrupted by Gaussian noise with zero mean and unknown covariance matrix ${\boldsymbol \Sigma}$. We propose minimax optimal methods of estimating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yuhao Wang , Pengkun Yang , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We study a family of sparse estimators defined as minimizers of some empirical Lipschitz loss function -- which include the hinge loss, the logistic loss and the quantile regression loss -- with a convex, sparse or group-sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-23 Antoine Dedieu

We derive optimal rates of convergence in the supremum norm for estimating the H\"older-smooth mean function of a stochastic process which is repeatedly and discretely observed with additional errors at fixed, multivariate, synchronous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Max Berger , Philipp Hermann , Hajo Holzmann

Motivated by the orthogonal series density estimation in $L^2([0,1],\mu)$, in this project we consider a new class of functions that we call the approximate sparsity class. This new class is characterized by the rate of decay of the…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-08-14 Lucas Z. Zhang

We consider the problem of testing the hypothesis that the parameter of linear regression model is 0 against an s-sparse alternative separated from 0 in the l2-distance. We show that, in Gaussian linear regression model with p < n, where p…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Alexandra Carpentier , Olivier Collier , Laëtitia Comminges , Alexandre B. Tsybakov , Yuhao Wang

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 functional regression with random subgaussian design and real-valued response. The focus is on the problems in which the regression function can be well approximated by a functional linear model with the slope function being…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Vladimir Koltchinskii , Stanislav Minsker

Deep learning has been applied to various tasks in the field of machine learning and has shown superiority to other common procedures such as kernel methods. To provide a better theoretical understanding of the reasons for its success, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Satoshi Hayakawa , Taiji Suzuki

In this paper, we observe a sparse mean vector through Gaussian noise and we aim at estimating some additive functional of the mean in the minimax sense. More precisely, we generalize the results of (Collier et al., 2017, 2019) to a very…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Olivier Collier , Laëtitia Comminges

We propose a general methodology for the construction and analysis of minimax estimators for a wide class of functionals of finite dimensional parameters, and elaborate on the case of discrete distributions, where the alphabet size $S$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Jiantao Jiao , Kartik Venkat , Yanjun Han , Tsachy Weissman

We consider the estimation of quadratic functionals in a Gaussian sequence model where the eigenvalues are supposed to be unknown and accessible through noisy observations only. Imposing smoothness assumptions both on the signal and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Martin Kroll

This paper is motivated by structured sparsity for deep neural network training. We study a weighted group L0-norm constraint, and present the projection and normal cone of this set. Using randomized smoothing, we develop zeroth and…

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High-dimensional statistical tests often ignore correlations to gain simplicity and stability leading to null distributions that depend on functionals of correlation matrices such as their Frobenius norm and other $\ell_r$ norms. Motivated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Jianqing Fan , Philippe Rigollet , Weichen Wang

Consider the standard Gaussian linear regression model $Y=X\theta+\epsilon$, where $Y\in R^n$ is a response vector and $ X\in R^{n*p}$ is a design matrix. Numerous work have been devoted to building efficient estimators of $\theta$ when $p$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-26 Nicolas Verzelen

Extending the results of Bellec, Lecu\'e and Tsybakov to the setting of sparse high-dimensional linear regression with unknown variance, we show that two estimators, the Square-Root Lasso and the Square-Root Slope can achieve the optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Alexis Derumigny

We consider two problems of estimation in high-dimensional Gaussian models. The first problem is that of estimating a linear functional of the means of $n$ independent $p$-dimensional Gaussian vectors, under the assumption that most of…

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