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We observe an unknown regression function of $d$ variables $f(\boldsymbol{t})$, $\boldsymbol{t} \in[0,1]^d$, in the Gaussian white noise model of intensity $\varepsilon>0$. We assume that the function $f$ is regular and that it is a sum of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Natalia Stepanova , Marie Turcicova

We observe an unknown function of $d$ variables $f(\boldsymbol{t})$, $\boldsymbol{t} \in[0,1]^d$, in the Gaussian white noise model of intensity $\varepsilon>0$. We assume that the function $f$ is regular and that it is a sum of $k$-variate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Natalia Stepanova , Marie Turcicova , Xiang Zhao

We consider the problem of recovery of an unknown multivariate signal $f$ observed in a $d$-dimensional Gaussian white noise model of intensity $\varepsilon$. We assume that $f$ belongs to a class of smooth functions ${\cal F}^d\subset…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Cristina Butucea , Natalia Stepanova

Bayesian nonparametric regression under a rescaled Gaussian process prior offers smoothness-adaptive function estimation with near minimax-optimal error rates. Hierarchical extensions of this approach, equipped with stochastic variable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Sheng Jiang , Surya T. Tokdar

In the context of high-dimensional linear regression models, we propose an algorithm of exact support recovery in the setting of noisy compressed sensing where all entries of the design matrix are independent and identically distributed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Mohamed Ndaoud , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We derive non-asymptotic bounds for the minimax risk of variable selection under expected Hamming loss in the Gaussian mean model in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for classes of $s$-sparse vectors separated from 0 by a constant $a > 0$. In some cases, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Cristina Butucea , Mohamed Ndaoud , Natalia A. Stepanova , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

Variable selection for recovering sparsity in nonadditive nonparametric models has been challenging. This problem becomes even more difficult due to complications in modeling unknown interaction terms among high dimensional variables. There…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-06-14 Zaili Fang , Inyoung Kim , Patrick Schaumont

In the pivotal variable selection problem, we derive the exact non-asymptotic minimax selector over the class of all $s$-sparse vectors, which is also the Bayes selector with respect to the uniform prior. While this optimal selector is, in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Cristina Butucea , Enno Mammen , Mohamed Ndaoud , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

This paper considers the problem of robust adaptive efficient estimating of a periodic function in a continuous time regression model with the dependent noises given by a general square integrable semimartingale with a conditionally…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Evgeny Pchelintsev , Serguei Pergamenshchikov

Based on discrete observations, we develop a test to infer if the volatility function $\sigma(\cdot)$ within the nonparametric Gaussian white noise model $dY_t = \sigma(t)dW_t$ is constant. The testing procedure is shown to be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Johannes Brutsche , Lukas Riepl

Sparse recovery is among the most well-studied problems in learning theory and high-dimensional statistics. In this work, we investigate the statistical and computational landscapes of sparse recovery with $\ell_\infty$ error guarantees.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ziyun Chen , Jerry Li , Kevin Tian , Yusong Zhu

This work deals with the ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing a function $f$ given implicitly as the solution of $g = Af$, where $A$ is a compact linear operator with unknown singular values and known eigenfunctions. We observe the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Jan Johannes , Maik Schwarz

We investigate structured sparsity methods for variable selection in regression problems where the target depends nonlinearly on the inputs. We focus on general nonlinear functions not limiting a priori the function space to additive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-17 Magda Gregorová , Alexandros Kalousis , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

We consider a nonparametric additive model of a conditional mean function in which the number of variables and additive components may be larger than the sample size but the number of nonzero additive components is "small" relative to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Jian Huang , Joel L. Horowitz , Fengrong Wei

We consider the model $Z_i=X_i+\varepsilon_i$, for i.i.d. $X_i$'s and $\varepsilon_i$'s and independent sequences $(X_i)_{i\in{\mathbb{N}}}$ and $(\varepsilon_i)_{i\in{\mathbb{N}}}$. The density $f_{\varepsilon}$ of $\varepsilon_1$ is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-02-10 C. Butucea , F. Comte

This paper presents Sparse Gradient Descent as a solution for variable selection in convex piecewise linear regression, where the model is given as the maximum of $k$-affine functions $ x \mapsto \max_{j \in [k]} \langle a_j^\star, x…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-07 Haitham Kanj , Seonho Kim , Kiryung Lee

We consider the following basic inference problem: there is an unknown high-dimensional vector $w \in \mathbb{R}^n$, and an algorithm is given access to labeled pairs $(x,y)$ where $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is a measurement and $y = w \cdot x +…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xue Chen , Anindya De , Rocco A. Servedio

This paper presents a new variable selection approach integrated with Gaussian process (GP) regression. We consider a sparse projection of input variables and a general stationary covariance model that depends on the Euclidean distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Chiwoo Park , David J. Borth , Nicholas S. Wilson , Chad N. Hunter

Accurate tuning of hyperparameters is crucial to ensure that models can generalise effectively across different settings. In this paper, we present theoretical guarantees for hyperparameter selection using variational Bayes in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Dennis Nieman , Botond Szabó

Additive nonparametric regression models provide an attractive tool for variable selection in high dimensions when the relationship between the response and predictors is complex. They offer greater flexibility compared to parametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-12 Garret Vo , Debdeep Pati
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