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Recent results show that estimates defined by over-parametrized deep neural networks learned by applying gradient descent to a regularized empirical $L_2$ risk are universally consistent and achieve good rates of convergence. In this paper,…
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In high-dimensional model selection problems, penalized simple least-square approaches have been extensively used. This paper addresses the question of both robustness and efficiency of penalized model selection methods, and proposes a…
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