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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

Infinite-dimensional, holomorphic functions have been studied in detail over the last several decades, due to their relevance to parametric differential equations and computational uncertainty quantification. The approximation of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Ben Adcock , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

We consider the nonparametric regression with a random design model, and we are interested in the adaptive estimation of the regression at a point $x\_0$ where the design is degenerate. When the design density is $\beta$-regularly varying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Stéphane Gaiffas

Many economic parameters are identified by ``thin sets'' (submanifolds with Lebesgue measure zero) and hence difficult to recover from data in an ambient space. This paper provides a unified theory for estimation and inference of such…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-03-09 Xiaohong Chen , Wayne Yuan Gao

In general, the solution to a regression problem is the minimizer of a given loss criterion, and depends on the specified loss function. The nonparametric isotonic regression problem is special, in that optimal solutions can be found by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Alexander I. Jordan , Anja Mühlemann , Johanna F. Ziegel

We study in-context learning for nonparametric regression with $\alpha$-H\"older smooth regression functions, for some $\alpha>0$. We prove that, with $n$ in-context examples and $d$-dimensional regression covariates, a pretrained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Michelle Ching , Ioana Popescu , Nico Smith , Tianyi Ma , William G. Underwood , Richard J. Samworth

In the framework of nonparametric multivariate function estimation we are interested in structural adaptation. We assume that the function to be estimated possesses the single-index structure where neither the link function nor the index…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Oleg Lepski , Nora Serdyukova

This paper considers adaptive, minimax estimation of a quadratic functional in a nonparametric instrumental variables (NPIV) model, which is an important problem in optimal estimation of a nonlinear functional of an ill-posed inverse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Christoph Breunig , Xiaohong Chen

The log-concave maximum likelihood estimator of a density on the real line based on a sample of size $n$ is known to attain the minimax optimal rate of convergence of $O(n^{-4/5})$ with respect to, e.g., squared Hellinger distance. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Arlene K. H. Kim , Adityanand Guntuboyina , Richard J. Samworth

In the one-parameter regression model with AR(1) and AR(2) errors we find explicit expressions and a continuous approximation of the optimal discrete design for the signed least square estimator. The results are used to derive the optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Holger Dette , Andrey Pepelyshev , Anatoly Zhigljavsky

Given a data matrix $X \in R^{n\times d}$ and a response vector $y \in R^{n}$, suppose $n>d$, it costs $O(n d^2)$ time and $O(n d)$ space to solve the least squares regression (LSR) problem. When $n$ and $d$ are both large, exactly solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Shusen Wang

We provide efficient algorithms for overconstrained linear regression problems with size $n \times d$ when the loss function is a symmetric norm (a norm invariant under sign-flips and coordinate-permutations). An important class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zhao Song , Ruosong Wang , Lin F. Yang , Hongyang Zhang , Peilin Zhong

We consider the well-known method of least squares on an equidistant grid with $N+1$ nodes on the interval $[-1,1]$ with the goal to approximate a function $f\in\mathcal{C}\left[-1,1\right]$ by a polynomial of degree $n$. We investigate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 René Goertz

This paper proposes the capped least squares regression with an adaptive resistance parameter, hence the name, adaptive capped least squares regression. The key observation is, by taking the resistant parameter to be data dependent, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-02 Qiang Sun , Rui Mao , Wen-Xin Zhou

We consider the estimation of two-sample integral functionals, of the type that occur naturally, for example, when the object of interest is a divergence between unknown probability densities. Our first main result is that, in wide…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Thomas B. Berrett , Richard J. Samworth

Minimax $L_2$ risks for high-dimensional nonparametric regression are derived under two sparsity assumptions: (1) the true regression surface is a sparse function that depends only on $d=O(\log n)$ important predictors among a list of $p$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Yun Yang , Surya T. Tokdar

This paper is concerned with the least squares estimator for a basic class of nonlinear autoregressive models, whose outputs are not necessarily to be ergodic. Several asymptotic properties of the least squares estimator have been…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Zhaobo Liu , Chanying Li

Functions with discontinuities appear in many applications such as image reconstruction, signal processing, optimal control problems, interface problems, engineering applications and so on. Accurate approximation and interpolation of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Mohammad Karimnejad Esfahani , Stefano De Marchi , Francesco Marchetti

We study least squares linear regression over $N$ uncorrelated Gaussian features that are selected in order of decreasing variance. When the number of selected features $p$ is at most the sample size $n$, the estimator under consideration…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Ji Xu , Daniel Hsu

We consider the problem of minimizing a $d$-dimensional Lipschitz convex function using a stochastic gradient oracle. We introduce and motivate a setting where the noise of the stochastic gradient is isotropic in that it is bounded in every…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Annie Marsden , Liam O'Carroll , Aaron Sidford , Chenyi Zhang